Bug#244715: "Use system bell" doesn't use system bell (and kills everything else)
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:19:15PM -0700, Frank Jas wrote:
>
> >On this box, the hardware beep /must/ work. And it works fine, outside
> >of KDE. But once KDE starts up, artsd takes over the system beep, and
> >artsd doesn't work. The "System Bell" module has its checkbox next to
> >"use the system bell instead of the little notification sounds", but the
> >Test botton on that dialog does nothing, and the system beep never happens.
> >
> >Reading the logfiles, I can see artsd messages every time the hardware
> >beep is supposed to go off. So clearly it's still being intercepted and
> >notification sounds are still trying to be played; that's the bug.
> >
> >Toggling the checkboxes, enabling/disabling the sound system, deleting
> >cache files, rebooting, etc, etc, doesn't help. It seems to be write-only.
>
> I ran into the same symptoms recently after upgrading KDE to 3.2.2 on
> 2.4.25 (ppc). After going around in circles for quite a while I found a
> check box in the KDE Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility ->
> Accessibility -> Bell.
Son of a... Two settings for the same thing, completely separate!
I would never have thought to look under Accessibility (I don't use any
of the "handicapped" features).
> Check "Use System Bell" magically got the bell to work. After the
> upgrade, these settings were changed back to the default, which is off.
>
> I'm interested to know if this solves your problem,
Woo-hoo! It does! That's been driving me bonkers. I wish I could
MIME-attach ten bucks to this email. :-)
Now all I have to do is get normal sound working again.
Thanks!
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