FC16. What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly at random, and it sounds like a rattle ?
I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora.
On 05/12/2012 02:29 PM, JD wrote:
FC16. What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly at random, and it sounds like a rattle ?
I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora.
I'm fairly sure it is DE dependent. One can make KDE quite noisy by going to "System Settings-->Common appearance and Behavior-->Application and System Notifications". Applications such as T-Bird have their own settings.... My cat managed to enable that, in the middle of the night, and it took a while to track down the "random beeps".
On 05/12/2012 01:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/12/2012 02:29 PM, JD wrote:
FC16. What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly at random, and it sounds like a rattle ?
I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora.
I'm fairly sure it is DE dependent. One can make KDE quite noisy by going to "System Settings-->Common appearance and Behavior-->Application and System Notifications". Applications such as T-Bird have their own settings.... My cat managed to enable that, in the middle of the night, and it took a while to track down the "random beeps".
Well, my current (and first time use of) is xfce4. I have had this on my machine for several iterations of fedora, from as far back as fc4. I had been a gnome user until fc16, where gnome3 really made my day :)
On 05/12/2012 12:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/12/2012 02:29 PM, JD wrote:
FC16. What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly at random, and it sounds like a rattle ?
I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora.
I'm fairly sure it is DE dependent. One can make KDE quite noisy by going to "System Settings-->Common appearance and Behavior-->Application and System Notifications". Applications such as T-Bird have their own settings.... My cat managed to enable that, in the middle of the night, and it took a while to track down the "random beeps".
I looked at Settings->Appearance->Settings->Event Sounds It is not checked. I continue to get this rattle sound being played many times while system is up and running. I checked thunderbird, and it has all it's even notifiers unchecked. Is there anything else to look at? I would really like to put a stop to this (without having to mute the audio output).
On 05/19/2012 09:37 AM, JD wrote:
I looked at Settings->Appearance->Settings->Event Sounds It is not checked. I continue to get this rattle sound being played many times while system is up and running. I checked thunderbird, and it has all it's even notifiers unchecked. Is there anything else to look at? I would really like to put a stop to this (without having to mute the audio output).
I forgot....what DE are you using? xfce?
Do you have this file on your system? And can you play it to see if this is the sound you are hearing?
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/trash-empty.oga
On 05/18/2012 07:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/19/2012 09:37 AM, JD wrote:
I looked at Settings->Appearance->Settings->Event Sounds It is not checked. I continue to get this rattle sound being played many times while system is up and running. I checked thunderbird, and it has all it's even notifiers unchecked. Is there anything else to look at? I would really like to put a stop to this (without having to mute the audio output).
I forgot....what DE are you using? xfce?
Do you have this file on your system? And can you play it to see if this is the sound you are hearing?
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/trash-empty.oga
No, I played the sound file you mention. The rattle I hear is like RRRRRRR It is kind of faint, and fades quickly to silence - has that rattle I am trying to express with the sound of the letter R as the Scots roll their R's. In school, we uses to use our small rulers by placing the ruler flat on the desk, with most of it sticking out, so that only a small part of it was on the desk, and we would press hard with one hand on the short end, while we would snap the free end.
While typing this message, I laptop made that sound 3 times.
frikin' thing is annoying!
On 05/19/2012 04:50 PM, JD wrote:
No, I played the sound file you mention. The rattle I hear is like RRRRRRR It is kind of faint, and fades quickly to silence - has that rattle I am trying to express with the sound of the letter R as the Scots roll their R's. In school, we uses to use our small rulers by placing the ruler flat on the desk, with most of it sticking out, so that only a small part of it was on the desk, and we would press hard with one hand on the short end, while we would snap the free end.
While typing this message, I laptop made that sound 3 times.
frikin' thing is annoying!
Well, it is kinda starting to sound more like a hardware issue. I suppose I've assumed you've eliminated that....
You can always go to /usr/share/sounds and play all that is there to find if any match.
On 05/19/2012 02:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/19/2012 04:50 PM, JD wrote:
No, I played the sound file you mention. The rattle I hear is like RRRRRRR It is kind of faint, and fades quickly to silence - has that rattle I am trying to express with the sound of the letter R as the Scots roll their R's. In school, we uses to use our small rulers by placing the ruler flat on the desk, with most of it sticking out, so that only a small part of it was on the desk, and we would press hard with one hand on the short end, while we would snap the free end.
While typing this message, I laptop made that sound 3 times.
frikin' thing is annoying!
Well, it is kinda starting to sound more like a hardware issue. I suppose I've assumed you've eliminated that....
You can always go to /usr/share/sounds and play all that is there to find if any match.
Played all of them in 5 sec intervals. It's none of them :(
On Sat, 19 May 2012 08:33:38 -0700 JD wrote:
Well, it is kinda starting to sound more like a hardware issue. I suppose I've assumed you've eliminated that....
You can always go to /usr/share/sounds and play all that is there to find if any match.
Played all of them in 5 sec intervals. It's none of them :(
It could still be a hardware problem with the speaker itself. Is the duration of the sound always the same or does it vary?
You might also want to run lsof in some kind of a loop and see if you can find the file that it's loading, if indeed that's the problem.
On 05/19/2012 09:51 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2012 08:33:38 -0700 JD wrote:
Well, it is kinda starting to sound more like a hardware issue. I suppose I've assumed you've eliminated that....
You can always go to /usr/share/sounds and play all that is there to find if any match.
Played all of them in 5 sec intervals. It's none of them :(
It could still be a hardware problem with the speaker itself. Is the duration of the sound always the same or does it vary?
You might also want to run lsof in some kind of a loop and see if you can find the file that it's loading, if indeed that's the problem.
When I mute the speakers, the sound disappears.
On 05/19/2012 01:28 PM, JD wrote:
When I mute the speakers, the sound disappears.
Open a terminal and run this command as root:
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see if anything pops up there at about the same time as the sound. If not, try this as yourself:
tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
to see if it's associated with some sort of problem. (BTW, do you get this sound if you boot into what used to be runlevel 3? If so, you can ignore this last suggestion.)
On 05/19/2012 01:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/19/2012 01:28 PM, JD wrote:
When I mute the speakers, the sound disappears.
Open a terminal and run this command as root:
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see if anything pops up there at about the same time as the sound. If not, try this as yourself:
tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
to see if it's associated with some sort of problem. (BTW, do you get this sound if you boot into what used to be runlevel 3? If so, you can ignore this last suggestion.)
At this point I am willing to try all good suggestions, your included.
Thanx,
JD
On 05/20/2012 05:04 AM, JD wrote:
At this point I am willing to try all good suggestions, your included.
2 ideas.....
1. Create a new user and login as that user. This should eliminate a per user setting.
2. Boot a LiveCD....using the spin of the DE you are using.
On 05/19/2012 02:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/20/2012 05:04 AM, JD wrote:
At this point I am willing to try all good suggestions, your included.
2 ideas.....
Create a new user and login as that user. This should eliminate a per user setting.
Boot a LiveCD....using the spin of the DE you are using.
Sound very reasonable. Will go for it in a couple of days.
Thanx Ed.
JD
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:28:12 -0700 JD wrote:
When I mute the speakers, the sound disappears.
If it's an electrical problem that causes the speakers to crackle, i.e. hardware, muting the speakers could also make the sound go away.
So you haven't eliminated hardware as the issue yet.
On 05/19/2012 03:30 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:28:12 -0700 JD wrote:
When I mute the speakers, the sound disappears.
If it's an electrical problem that causes the speakers to crackle, i.e. hardware, muting the speakers could also make the sound go away.
So you haven't eliminated hardware as the issue yet.
It is not crackling sound at all. It is indeed very much an audio file sound. If the speakers were crackling, they would crackle when I play any multimedia, which is not the case.
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