> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>>
>> On a machine I have here I see this :
>>
>> # ls -lap /dev/audio
>> /dev/audio: No such file or directory
>>
>> Now I know that when I issue a shutdown command I generally get a beep
>> out of the box. At some point. Is there a snippit of code in there
>> somewhere ( 30 million lines of it ) that creates this "beep" ?
>
> /usr/bin/printf '\a' should do it.
I guess that will need to happen as a user with a session.
I was looking at the console device :
# ls -lap /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:console
crw--w---- 1 root tty 0, 0 May 3 13:17
/devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:console
but one needs to be either root or tty in order to write anything there
and I don't think this is what I am looking for.
> If you want the deep and dirty C code, this is how the X server does it
> when using the keyboard bell (so called since it used to be in the keyboard,
> but isn't anymore with most USB keyboards):
>
> http://cvsweb.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/hw/xfree86/os-support/solaris/sun_kbd.c?rev=1.7&view=markup
Yes, now this is more like what I was thinking. Sort of.
I should have been more clear than to simply say "how to make the server go
beep" when I could print a ASCII BEL char to some device and achieve that.
I was thinking of a machine in which no user is logged in and it simply
beeps from either a cron job or more likely a server daemon.
I better open up Rich Teer's book .. this is probably in there somewhere.
Everything from soup to nuts seems to be.
> (See sunKbdSoundBell function - short summary is ioctl on /dev/kbd of type
> KIOCCMD with arguments of KBD_CMD_BELL to turn on and KBD_CMD_NOBELL to
> turn
> off when done.)
Hmmm .. I'll look at that. I wonder what happens when there is no X server
and no keyboard or framebuffer. A console at most. I wonder if a shutdown
still results in a "beep". I'll check with a totally stripped down Netra
unit here.
--
Dennis Clarke
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