[OBORONA-SPAM] radom beep

[Carl Karsten]

It seems to be.  If I leave t-bird closed - no beep.  open it, and I get a beep 
within 5 seconds or so as it is fetching new messages.

Carl K

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> 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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