260081 - "beep" set for accessibility.typeahead.soundURL doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Mozilla 1.7.2, Firefox 0.9.3, Fedora Core 2 Linux

accessibility.typeahead.enablesound is true
accessibility.typeahead.soundURL has been both "beep" and
"/usr/share/sounds/pop.wav"

I go to google.com, and then click outside the input box so that I'm not in the
input box, and typed "zzz" and got no error sound.

I did the same thing on Windows, and got the error sound.

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Sean Proctor  in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239046#c23:

I tried the typeaheadfind, but that seems to be a totally separate issue. I
don't have sound there even when I do have sound in flash. setting it to a .wav
file did nothing. setting it to default gives me a bunch of garbage followed by:
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device
or resource busy
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device
or resource busy

thought mozilla is the app making ALSA busy. actually, this is with firefox. I
can test with mozilla if you want. when it's set to beep, I do get a beep though.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

mozilla uses ESD when it can. if another app keeps the sound device busy,
there's nothing mozilla can do.

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

This is weird... I tried "default", and "file:///usr/share/sounds/pop.wav" and
it worked, but "beep" doesn't work. Renaming bug. Disregard comment #1, since I
believe I'm having a different issue.

Comment 4

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I tried xset b on, and this didn't solve the problem. Is there any way to test
the beep in another application? I have an SB Live, but I also have a PC Speaker.

Comment 5

[Sean Proctor]

I'm sure you can just do this through the shell, but I can't figure that out, so
try this: perl -e 'print "\a"'

Comment 6

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Yes, that worked in Cygwin on Windows, but not on Fedora 2. Obviously they did
something funky with the beep.