Bug 118422

Summary:	system bell volume affects duration
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component:	kcmbell	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	fschaefer.oss, thnielsen
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Volker Kuhlmann 2005-12-16 07:01:13 UTC

Version:           3.4.2 Level "b"  (using KDE 3.4.2 Level "b" , SUSE 10.0)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.13-15.7-default

In kcontrol's Sound & Multimedia->System Bell, the setting for volume affects the duration. It seems that the given duration is multiplied by the given volume.

Obviously the PC speaker has no volume control, so the only sensible settings are 0% and 100%. That still has nothing to do with duration though.

Comment 1 sonix 2006-02-20 00:56:41 UTC

I can confirm the bug (Mandriva 2006, KDE 3.4.2). 

If I set the duration to 1000ms (1sec) and the volume to 50%, I get a 1 second long beep. 
But if I set the volume to 100% I get a 2 seconds long beep and the volume is the same as before. 

It looks like that a volume of 50% stands for a duration of 100%.

Comment 2 Médéric Boquien 2008-08-10 20:29:04 UTC

*** Bug 168857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 thnielsen 2010-12-03 17:32:47 UTC

still a problem in:
KDE Bell Control Module
Version 
Using KDE Development Platform 4.5.80 (4.6 Beta1)

Comment 4 Frank Schaefer 2010-12-04 13:54:50 UTC

Hmm, it's an xlib-bug !

@thnielsen
Which version of X11 are you running ? I'm sure it's much newer than mine...

Comment 5 thnielsen 2010-12-06 09:19:58 UTC

The version I have are taken off Suse factory -- fixing my own workstation when it breaks after an update (which happens surprisingly rare these days) is my way of keeping up with desktop knowledge :-) But this bug is visibly old, and not due to the somewhat untested version i have.

X -version

"....."

X.Org X Server 1.9.2.901 (1.9.3 RC 1)
Release Date: 2010-11-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux linux-ndqb 2.6.37-rc3-git1-6-default #1 SMP 2010-11-24 15:49:45 +0100 i686
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS721010G9SA00_MPCZN7Y0GWLB3L-part6 splash=silent quiet vga=0x345
Build Date: 15 November 2010  02:49:09PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.20.0
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.

Thanks for your attention :-)

Comment 6 Frank Schaefer 2010-12-08 11:49:07 UTC

Thanks, I've created a bug-report at freedesktops.org: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32223