Shawn Walker wrote: >>>Doug Scott wrote: >> >> The appropriate ioctl >> KBD_CMD_BELL and KBD_CMD_NOBELL are already in >> sys/kbd.h. >> >>Those ioctls don't make it so the bell doesn't >> sound >> in the future - they >>are used for sounding the bell. In the X server, >> to >> make a 100ms beep, >> we do: >> kbdCmd = KBD_CMD_BELL; >> ioctl(fd, KIOCCMD, &kbdCmd) >> sleep for 100ms >> kbdCmd = KBD_CMD_NOBELL; >> ioctl(fd, KIOCCMD, &kbdCmd) >> >> You'ld need to add new ones to make a keyboard bell >> disabling command. >>h, this would confirm my testing issues so far. My >>confusion comes from the wording (below) in the file >>http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/ >>common/io/conskbd.c. Looks ioctls commands like >>KBD_CMD_BELL_ENABLE and KBD_CMD_BELL_DISABLE are >>required. > > > I don't think I'd mind the bell so much if there were some way to control the > volume of it! The bell exists on other operating systems at the console, but > I don't remember being nearly as loud as it is in Solaris. I don't suppose > there is already a way to do that, or a way that could be finagled in with > this, is there? :) >
Actually it is a long standing RFE: 4421990 allow changing keyboard bell frequency As I know, Aaron.Rui at Sun.COM is working on it. Riny
