How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

[nikoPSK]

sweet, red alert 2 was a great game. PS, did you just extract the sounds from your installation of it? Or could you send them to me...

[mouseboyx]

I've tried all those and more except feather. Mine has half the processor speed required.

I currently have a home server running with 92 megs of ram and a 233mhz processor, it can act as my squid proxy, http server, ftp server, and ssh server all at once. and still has enough stuff to run X.
(jwm)

[santiagoward2000]

sweet, red alert 2 was a great game. PS, did you just extract the sounds from your installation of it? Or could you send them to me...

Actually, I looked for them on my CDs and inside the installation folders and I couldn't find them, so I finally got them from FrostWire. I'm still looking for the "You have 30 seconds to comply" that you hear when the installation asks for the key. I wanted to use that one on my login screen.
Let me compress the files and I'll send them to you. Just let me tell you they have no useful name, so you'll have to listen to some minutes of speeches to find the one you want.

EDIT:
Where can I send them to? Would there be any problems by attaching them here?

[KIAaze]

@NicoPSK:

I forgot this for your problem with festival:
Just install one of the voice packs. Search for festival in name&desription in synaptic.
ex:

festival-czech - Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system
festival-doc - Documentation for Festival
festival-freebsoft-utils - Festival extensions and utilities
festival-gaim - gaim plugin to hear incoming messages using voice synthesis
festival-hi - Festival text to speech synthesizer for Hindi
festival-mr - Festival text to speech synthesizer for Marathi
festival-te - Festival text to speech synthesizer for Telugu (te) language
festlex-ifd - Italian support for Festival
festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
festvox-czech-ph - Czech male speaker for Festival
festvox-hi-nsk - Hindi male speaker for Festival
festvox-italp16k - Italian female speaker for Festival
festvox-itapc16k - Italian male speaker for Festival
festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
festvox-mr-nsk - Marathi male speaker for Festival
festvox-suopuhe-common - Common files for Festival Finnish speakers
festvox-suopuhe-lj - Finnish female speaker for Festival
festvox-suopuhe-mv - Finnish male speaker for festival
festvox-te-nsk - Telugu (te) male speaker for Festival
festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival
festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival
festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate

P.S: Just discovered this:
festival-gaim - gaim plugin to hear incoming messages using voice synthesis
Must try out.
If somebody finds it for IRC, please tell me.

[nikoPSK]

I have to try that out too, are there any funny voices? My gps has some funny ones...

[weeman7007]

ignore this post, just subscribing for when i have sound in laptop again

[loadeddreams]

I really like this.

I made my laptop close sound from an OpenOffice.Org .wav file.
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/gallery/sounds/beam.wav but I edited the file with audacity to get rid of the "BIP" noise at the end of the file...

but after reading more of this thread, I'm thinking about using some fesitval stuff

very interesting thread... thanks

[dakuran]

When i first followed this howto it worked like a charm for me, but for some reason after I reinstalled its not working anymore, i made sure to convert the sound flies (CS, Ownage & Wicked Sick) to 16bit .wav I threw everything in /etc/acpi and copied the code and placed it properly in lid.sh.

However, the hinge on the left side of my laptop (that keeps the display connected to the keyboard) is a bit lose, but, when I apply a bit of pressure my display shuts off (thats when it used 2 play) and when I opened it up it worked flawlessly

any suggestions/tips?

Thanks in advance

~dak

[Pru]

How can I get it to work with other programs? I really want to be able to use xbindkeys so i can change the mapping of some keys while it's closed (my laptop has -some- exposed keys)

I also tried running stuff like firefox and xfce4-terminal to open when i open the lid and that doesn't work either.


btw thanks for the great tutorial (i have the starcraft sounds )

[KIAaze]

However, the hinge on the left side of my laptop (that keeps the display connected to the keyboard) is a bit lose, but, when I apply a bit of pressure my display shuts off (thats when it used 2 play) and when I opened it up it worked flawlessly

any suggestions/tips?

I don't quite understand the problem.
Seems more like a hardware issue.

How can I get it to work with other programs? I really want to be able to use xbindkeys so i can change the mapping of some keys while it's closed (my laptop has -some- exposed keys)

I also tried running stuff like firefox and xfce4-terminal to open when i open the lid and that doesn't work either.

The problem is that the commands get run by root and don't seem to have access to the display/ X server.
I'm still trying to figure out how to launch GUIs from there (as well as from root crontab).
As for xbindkeys, I don't know how to use it, so if you could tell me what command you are trying to run, it might help me.

Here's what I do to debug:

date 1>>/home/user/temp.log 2>&1

grep -q closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
        export DISPLAY=:0 && xfce4-terminal 1>>/home/user/temp.log 2>&1
        xbindkeys  1>>/home/user/temp.log 2>&1
else
        export DISPLAY=:0 && xfce4-terminal 1>>/home/user/temp.log 2>&1
        xbindkeys  1>>/home/user/temp.log 2>&1
fi

It will write all output from the commands into /home/user/temp.log

Here's what I'm currently getting:

Mon Sep 22 13:37:27 CEST 2008
No protocol specified

(xfce4-terminal:14256): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

Some things I found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-5281.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb