[arch-general] sporadic strange PC speaker sounds
Hey hey, occasionally I hear a short "tune" on my pc speaker. It's too unexpected and too short to try lsof to see which process is using the pc speaker. The sound is reminiscent of old console games. It's several short notes, all in a blues pentatonic. this has been an issue right from the installation. The only special daemon running is brltty, which at least didn't use to make such sounds in the past. Can anyone suggest a process or a method of finding it? It only happens a couple of times a day, but this could be a problem when recording with the microphone. On the other hand, I can't turn off the pc speaker, since I rely on BRLTTY and other signals in non recording contexts. Thank you and best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:45:23 +0200 (CEST), J. C. wrote:
all in a blues pentatonic.
Hi Jeanette, a minor pentatonic or does it play a blue note, too? And if it should play a blue note, is it then still a pentatonic? Joking apart, ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql brltty | grep y-tune brltty /usr/bin/brltty-tune To /etc/pacman.conf add NoExtract = usr/bin/brltty-tune and reinstall brltty. Here it doesn't play anything. I'm using the bell, aka PC speaker beep a lot, but can't here what brltty-tune plys, due to a missing tune. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ brltty-tune brltty-tune: missing tune Perhaps you should add a soft link /usr/bin/brltty-tune -> /usr/bin/true assuming you shouldn't install /usr/bin/brltty-tune. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ man true | grep nothing true - do nothing, successfully Hopefully it's the culprit. Regards, Ralf
PS: I wanted to know, if there's the need to add a melody file ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ brltty-tune --help Usage: brltty-tune [option ...] note... | -f [{file | -}...] -f --files Use files rather than command line arguments. -v loudness --volume= Output volume (percentage). -d device --device= Name of tune device. -i instrument --instrument= Name of MIDI instrument. -h --help Print a usage summary (commonly used options only), and then exit. -H --full-help Print a usage summary (all options), and then exit. ... regarding the MIDI instrument I now have doubts that it does use the PC speaker beep. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ man brltty-tune No manual entry for brltty-tune -- Death of ROXTerm https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/
On 10/18/2016 01:45 PM, J. C. wrote:
Hey hey, occasionally I hear a short "tune" on my pc speaker. It's too unexpected and too short to try lsof to see which process is using the pc speaker.
Maybe it's a video clip running in the browser? DR
In Oct 18 A.D. 2016 David Rosenstrauch scripsit: ...
Maybe it's a video clip running in the browser? ... Text console only and I have a multichannel sound system configured, so no clip should DARE to play thorugh the pc speaker. :)
TTFN, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3
In Oct 18 A.D. 2016 Ralf Mardorf scripsit: ...
brltty /usr/bin/brltty-tune ... Here it doesn't play anything. I'm using the bell, aka PC speaker beep a lot, but can't hear what brltty-tune plys, due to a missing tune. ... Hi Ralf, I've looked into this, brltty-tune is only used to play the usual sounds of brltty, which are obviously connected to braille display actions. The odd sound can even be heard, when I'm not sitting at the terminal. But thanks for the time and effort you put into this.
Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3
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David Rosenstrauch
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J. C.
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Ralf Mardorf