[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Pop
I have installed all proposed updates and the beep is still there. Also, the pcspkr isn't blacklisted, but muted in the volume control. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-05-02 Thread Amejin90
I can't be 100% positive that this is the case, but on my system at least I found that an error dialogue appeared along with the beep and after some investigation I found that it was related to Avant Window Navigator. Going through the settings in gconf-editor I found the following key: /apps/a

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Accepted linux into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Tags added: verification-needed -- s

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-28 Thread clombard
When is this "beep" getting fixed at the level where it started...? This is why we got away from Microsoft in the first place...remember "Animal Farm"...? -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-28 Thread Michael C
If you are having problems trying to blacklist the sytem bell, here is the reason: There is another open bug about this, but the modprob.d files are now appended with ".conf" so, instead of adding "blacklist pcspkr" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist add it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf i

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-27 Thread Nathan Collins
Vytas, before disabling the beep (of apparently less doom) in intrepid by blacklisting pcspkr, I could log out without the beep by clicking on the Fast User Switch Applet and selecting "Shut down". But probably your "shutdown from GDM => no beep" is referring only to clicking System->Shut Down, s

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-27 Thread Vytas
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr -- unloads module temporarily, not across reboots I think. However most probably you edited blacklist file as well and it came into effect after the next reboot ;) In any case, this is just a workaround, not a fix! And this bug should receive more attention in general, no

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Costick
"To get rid of the shutdown beep (and perhaps making that last step redundent) you should blacklist the pc speaker: In a terminal type "gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf" =>This will open gedit, go to the last line in the file. Type "blacklist pcspkr" without quotes onto a blank line at t

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Dickson
As has previously been mentioned and detailed you can manually disable the pc speaker if you desire: To get rid of most of the "alerts" (for instance in the terminal): System - Preferences - Sound - Sounds, then uncheck "Play alert sound" ==> This won't however stop the system beeping on shutdown

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Costick
I would like to add that, as well as at shutdown, the beep also occurs: -- in Gedit or Tomboy, when trying to move the text cursor beyond the start or end of a file. -- in Terminal when backspacing into the prompt. I'm using Jaunty official release on a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. It is VERY an

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-26 Thread stinkinrich88
I've upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty and I have the problem too. With Intrepid, all beeps came from the internal pc speaker. In jaunty it comes from my sound-card speakers. I do not want to disable beep, I just want it back to my internal pc speaker. Any ideas how? And I think a visual beep is m

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-26 Thread blakeyrat
I just wanted to log in to say that this is keeping me from using Ubuntu on my laptop. I wouldn't inflict that hideously-irritating sound on anybody within (the substantial) hearing range of my laptop when, for example, using it on a train or bus. I'm extremely disappointed that this wasn't fixed b

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-26 Thread Roman Polach
As in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/331589/comments/14 have been already noticed, disabling pc-speaker (even permanent) is not a fix. I found pc-speaker useful when working in terminal, but I only want to disable the monstrous beep on shutdown. This was fine in Hardy (and Gu

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-26 Thread Timo
I fixed it. Don't know what did it, but these are the 3 things I've done: - $ sudo rmmod pcspkr - Added 'blacklist pcspkr' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf - $ gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/audible_bell False -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-25 Thread aysiu
This isn't a "me too" comment. I wanted to let you know that this problem exists for me in a fresh installation of Jaunty. Oddly enough, I did not have this problem at all in the beta release of Jaunty when I upgraded from Intrepid. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to ma

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-25 Thread Atanas Atanasov
I tried "sudo modprobe -r pcspkr" and can confirm the beep persists (even at the first shutdown) on a Dall Inspiron 1721 laptop. I checked it with headphones and the beep is definitely coming from line out not a pcspeaker (if the laptop has one in the first place). -- system beep in jaunty is the

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Smith - dominoconsultant
I am also getting this (absurdly loud) BEEP with a dell D620 with a fully patched fresh install of 9.04 (final release). This occurs only during system shut-down. The command $ sudo modprobe -r pcspkr This stops the problem for a single shut-down but it's not permanent. All I need is a way t

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-25 Thread Matthäus Brandl
@clombard: You need to blacklist pcspkr by adding the line "blacklist pcspkr" to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf You can check that the module has been blacklisted correctly by issuing "lsmod | grep pcspkr" in the console, it should return false and no output. -- system beep in jaunty i

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-24 Thread clombard
The answer to the question: "What happens if you do a: $ sudo modprobe -r pcspkr Then shutdown...do you hear it then?" is "NO" but when you restart then shut down...guess what...? The most annoying sound known to man is heard...Loud & Clear. Who thought,... System->Preferences->Sound...uncheck "sy

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-16 Thread der_vegi
According to the new description "Testcase: Working in a virtual terminal doing some action that causes a beep.", bug 290204 would not be duplicate any more. On some systems, the system beep does not only occur when working in a terminal, but also when you simply shut down your system in Gnome. Dis

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-16 Thread Robbie Williamson
Please wait on posting anymore "it's broken for me" type messages until the fix as been released for testing, as we cannot do anymore until then. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Milestone: ubuntu-9.04 => jaunty-updates -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-16 Thread Robbie Williamson
Moved this back to "Triaged" as the originally stated problem still exists. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Fix Committed => Triaged -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-16 Thread Stefan Bader
** Description changed: + SRU justification: + + Impact: Having the speaker beep enabled for snd-hda-intel cards produces + a very intrusive noise which is more annoying than helpful. + + Fix: For now disable the system beep in that driver. + + Testcase: Working in a virtual terminal doing some

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-15 Thread Lexor
I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my Dell 1501 laptop... it has the same terribly loud beep on shutdown. I've tried everything, but to no avail. Please help correct this issue. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:20:12AM -, Ahmad Syukri wrote: > What is responsible for creating /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ? /etc/init.d/alsa-utils -- - mdz -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-14 Thread Ahmad Syukri
What is responsible for creating /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ? In that file, I have the following control: control.16 { comment.access 'read write' comment.type INTEGER comment.count 1 comment.range '0 - 3' comment.dbmin -1800 comment.dbmax 0

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:20:15AM -, Atanas Atanasov wrote: > I have the most recent Jaunty updates but still hear the beep on > shutdown. I can also confirm in my case it is not a pc speaker beep but > comes from the audio out (checked with headphones on Dell Inspiron > 1721). Is the fix comm

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-12 Thread Atanas Atanasov
I have the most recent Jaunty updates but still hear the beep on shutdown. I can also confirm in my case it is not a pc speaker beep but comes from the audio out (checked with headphones on Dell Inspiron 1721). Is the fix committed to public repositories yet? -- system beep in jaunty is the most

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Gardner
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu- jaunty.git;a=commit;h=f0570b3cfc9799cd9ace683eeb5a4d07a4c4bd3f ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 Yo

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
** Package changed: alsa-utils (Ubuntu Jaunty) => linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Triaged => In Progress -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because yo

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
I think the best way to solve this issue for now is to disable the hda beep configuration options in the kernel, since some hda codecs have a volume control, and some don't. If the beep is really desired by people in the future, we can try and work out a solution. I'll send a patch to the kernel t

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-03 Thread Robbie Williamson
@ Take Life Easy: What happens if you do a: $ sudo modprobe -r pcspkr Then shutdown...do you hear it then? -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-03 Thread Take Life Easy
I upgraded and I get this every time I shut down. It is VERY loud. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-03 Thread Robbie Williamson
So what is the solution for these users? -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lis

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel T Chen
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robbie Williamson wrote: > Could people who update not be getting the fix?  It appears that the > issue is not resolved for them. The setting is only effected on fresh installs. People who upgrade have an existing /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and use that value (if

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-03 Thread Robbie Williamson
@Luke, Could people who update not be getting the fix? It appears that the issue is not resolved for them. ** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Fix Released => Triaged -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 Y

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-04-02 Thread rdesfo
I'm also running Jaunty Beta 1 on a Dell inspiron and it also beeps every time I turn my laptop off. IT also beeps when I'm using gvim. It really takes from the experience of using ubuntu and is something that definitely needs to be fixed before the official release -- system beep in jaunty is

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-28 Thread Take Life Easy
I am running the beta as of 27/03 and have a DELL Precision M90. I get this beep when I shutdown and it is VERY LOUD! I too do not have any setting in the Volume control to turn this off -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You r

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-19 Thread David Bensimon
> I am now able to turn it off in the GNOME Sound preferences (thanks Bug #325778!) @Pete - I don't think that's the right bug number. Also confirming that this is the most annoying sound known to man. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-05 Thread Luke Yelavich
@Pete Graner, here is the patch I was telling you about. Let me know if it helps you at all. ** Attachment added: "linux-2.6-defaults-alsa-hda-beep-off.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23526368/linux-2.6-defaults-alsa-hda-beep-off.patch -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying soun

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-04 Thread Pete Goodall
I recently re-installed with Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5. I have applied all updates as of 3 March 2009. I now have a "PC Beep" volume in alsamixer and it is muted. The beep doesn't happen at all now, which is fine for me for now. However, if I turn that volume up I _still_ don't hear the beep. This i

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-02 Thread Pete Graner
@Luke, It will have to be the hard way... no "PC Speaker" control. Sorry. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-03-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
Pete, if the mixer has a "PC Speaker" control, try turning that off/down. If that makes no difference, then we'll have to change things the hard way. I was put onto a no beep hda patch from fedora the other day, I'll try it out, and submit it for inclusion in the kernel if its behavior is worth hav

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-27 Thread Pete Graner
@Luke, no beep exposed via alsamixer... -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
I've also found out about a patch that fedora has to disable the beep by default at the kernel source level. I am building a custom kernel and will test with hardware I have access to that has one of these beeps, and see what affect the patch has. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sou

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
Pete, in alsamixer, do you have anything labeled beep anywhere? From your amixer output, you have a beep generator, but I am wondering whether it has a mixer control associated with it. If not, we will have to find out how to turn it off via other means. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoy

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel T Chen
Pete G, does unloading pcspkr help on your D620? -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-26 Thread Pete Graner
@Luke, I have a Dell Latitude D620 and I don't have a "PC Beep" control, and this bell is about to make me throw my computer out. What do we need to do? I ran the alsa-info.sh script the output is here: http://www.alsa- project.org/db/?f=e2ca388f4695b7da04ae27c5fdfbf5408daad02a -- system beep i

Re: [Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
It has been solved, at least for initial installs. Pete, what you will have to do is go into the mixer, and turn down/mute the "PC Beep" control. That will get rid of that loud beep you are getting. As the changelog for the alsa-utils upload above explains, this sound control will be muted by defa

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-25 Thread Pete Goodall
@Andy - Thx for the tip. I will try that. This is definitely not fixed. I have just updated, and when I mistyped my password in GDM I almost leaped out of my skin. I made the fundamental mistake of keeping my headphones on when re-booting, and have (thankfully) lived to regret it. Are we any c

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-22 Thread Andy Whitcroft
@pete -- thank you for that description :). I had the same issue. There are two parts to this. First, the beep is now monstrous, and second the default beep in readline is now on rather than off (which bash uses). I sorted the beep being used in all of my terminals, in x or not by adding the fol

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-19 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package alsa-utils - 1.0.18-1ubuntu9 --- alsa-utils (1.0.18-1ubuntu9) jaunty; urgency=low [ Daniel T Chen ] * adjust_init_hda_db.patch: Account for shifted db range of some HDA codecs (from upstream git HEAD) [ Luke Yelavich ] * mute PC Beep on h

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
Part of this can be solved by muting the recently added PC Beep control on hda soundcards. As for general disabling for everybody however, I will dig deeper, add tasks where necessary, and change packages accordingly. ** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu Jaunty) Sourcepackagename: None => alsa-utils

[Bug 331589] Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

2009-02-19 Thread Robbie Williamson
Assigning to Luke Yelavich (audio focal point for Foundations team) for an initial analysis. ** Changed in: ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) => Luke Yelavich (themuso) ** Changed in: ubuntu Importance: Undecided => High Status: New => Triaged Target: None => ubuntu-9.04 ** Cha