Thomas E. Zander wrote:
Hi,just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned in bios or anywhere else before loading a sound driver (in this case snd_ich). This especially means the pc speaker volume is always set to 100% at every boot which results in a horribly loud beep which I am afraid the built-in "speakers" can't do very often :-) So what about this one: --- /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S +++ boot0.S @@ -201,9 +201,7 @@ /* * Start of input loop. Beep and take note of time */ -main.10: movb $ASCII_BEL,%al # Signal - callw putchr # beep! - xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get +main.10: xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get int $0x1a # system time movw %dx,%di # Ticks when addw _TICKS(%bp),%di # timeout This might be an issue on other architectures (amd64?) as well, I haven't checked that right now. TIA, Riggs
The beep is useful for some people who run headless systems, but it is indeed annoying for others, especially with laptops in quiet places. We should probably conditionalize this on a variable that can go into /etc/make.conf. Note that amd64 uses the i386 bits here. Scott _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
