Thanks Minksey! I booted the live CD of Ubuntu and didn't notice a beep anywhere under the /proc/asound hierarchy. Ubuntu has the same missing beep problem as OpenSolaris, though, so perhaps this is why.
In any case, I'm psyched to see some progress being made here and hope this can be resolved for 2009.06. Many thanks everyone. Will minskey guo wrote: > Many HD codec has both analog beep and digital beep. IHVs > may provide a method to enable one of them. I remember that > R500 uses Realtek's Codec. If yes, the codec has a beep widget > which is logically on the same wire as external analog beep(If the pin > of codec is connected to an external beep). > > there is a HD verb to disable internal digital beep, so that analog > beep works, or vice versa. But for you case, seems that there is no > extral analog beep. (BTW, You menioned ubuntu, you can check if > there is a beep under like this: /proc/asound/cardx/codecx/beep) > > If the audiohd driver is required to enable digital beep. Then, there > is an problem to be solved here: Probably, the routine beep_on() > and beep_off() need to check if audio driver exports a beep interface, > and use it to make a sound. > > -minskey > > > > > Willie Walker ??: >> Hi Alan: >> >> Unfortunately, at the point at where I want the system to beep, the X >> Server has not yet been started. It's at the character-cell console >> language and keyboard layout prompts you get when you first boot the >> live CD. >> >> In any case, it sounds like Yangrong Zhou might on the trail for this >> problem. If that's the case, it would be really awesome and also help >> me avoid any regret for the $$$'s spent on the R500. >> >> I might also try to spin up a new custom live CD to see if the >> /usr/bin/audioplay and /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav files are >> available and working (and /usr/bin/espeak for that matter). If that's >> the case, then I might be able to come up with a richer solution than >> the beep-based one I put in place for 2008.11. >> >> Will >> >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> What build are you trying on? One of the new "features" in Xorg 1.5 >>> (b107 and later) is that when X beeps, it now uses both /dev/audio & >>> /dev/kbd, to make sure you really hear it. (We probably need to add >>> some configuration options to allow you to disable one or the other >>> before the remaining Ferrari 4000 users form a lynch mob at my door, >>> but I haven't gotten to that yet.) >>> >>> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >>> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >>> >>> >>> Willie Walker wrote: >>>> Hi All: >>>> >>>> As part of the OpenSolaris accessible live CD and install work, we >>>> play audible prompts (beeps) at the keyboard layout and language >>>> selection screens presented during the boot of the live CD. These >>>> prompts allow blind people to determine that they are being asked >>>> for input. When coupled with separate written documentation, the >>>> user can then work their way through the boot and install the system >>>> without sighted assistance. >>>> >>>> On *some* machines, notably this nice little Toshiba Portege R500 >>>> laptop in my lap, the console beep doesn't seem to work. As a means >>>> for testing this, I do an "svcadm disable gdm", login, and then type >>>> "/usr/bin/printf '\a'". I know the beep *can* work -- if I >>>> press/hold the Escape key while powering the machine on, I get a >>>> nice loud beep. >>>> >>>> Aside from being able to set the volume level of the beep (which I >>>> have set to the loudest setting), I cannot see anything in the BIOS >>>> that lets me enable/disable the system bell. I've also tried mucking >>>> with /etc/kbd/default to no avail. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue or a driver issue, and I'm >>>> wondering if anyone has any ideas. >>>> >>>> Will >>>> >>>> PS - my next step is to boot a live CD from a different distribution >>>> (e.g., Ubuntu) to see if it exhibits the same problem. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
