<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - X11 bell event dropped in Xfce and other non-Gnome desktops" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58930#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - X11 bell event dropped in Xfce and other non-Gnome desktops" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58930">bug 58930</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:freedesktop-bugs@thequod.de" title="Daniel Hahler <freedesktop-bugs@thequod.de>"> Daniel Hahler</a> <pre>I have noticed that pulseaudio fails to fall back to properly: I: [pulseaudio] module-x11-bell.c: Ringing bell failed, reverting to X11 device bell. The code is the following (in x11_event_cb, src/modules/x11/module-x11-bell.c): if (pa_scache_play_item_by_name(u->core, u->scache_item, u->sink_name, ((pa_volume_t) bne->percent*PA_VOLUME_NORM)/100U, NULL, NULL) < 0) { pa_log_info("Ringing bell failed, reverting to X11 device bell."); XkbForceDeviceBell(pa_x11_wrapper_get_display(w), bne->device, bne->bell_class, bne->bell_id, bne->percent); } It looks like XkbForceDeviceBell is meant to do beeping via the pcspkr module?! The problem is that the module-x11-bell module gets loaded always via /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11: /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-bell "display=$DISPLAY" "sample=bell.ogg" > /dev/null But the sample is not being uploaded. You can check if the module is loaded using: pactl list | grep module-x11-bell The sample can be loaded manually using: pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg Does uploading a (valid, existing) sample file work for you?</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>