[OBORONA-SPAM] radom beep

[Gabriel Dragffy]

evolution can make a pc speaker beep when new mail arrives, is it that?

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 00:09 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:

> My 3 day old dapper box beeps with a ^G pc speaker beep every few hours.  The 
> same hardware has been running XP for about a year, no mystery beeps.
> 
> I do have a sound card, it has it's own issues - it went from working, to 
> playing the same thing in a loop 16 times to not working:
> 
> carl at amd15:~/bin$ play /usr/share/hwdb-client/sound.wav
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
> 
> If I hit ^G in a terminal, the pc speaker beeps.
> 
> my fear is something like smart-mon is trying to tell me my HD is about to fail.
> 
> Carl K
> 
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