Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Boosten
On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card and

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Ah, the famous ^G control character... :-) Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk mailto:fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0100 Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Leslie Jensen
Frank Leonhardt skrev 2013-10-07 13:37: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread RW
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and speakers, but it won't do anything with the beep speaker. Are you sure you have one? The last two

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: Then there's the issue of writing it to the console rather than a virtual terminal, but I have a few hacks that'll achieve that part. /dev/console is your friend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 14:31, RW wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and speakers, but it won't do anything with the beep speaker. Are you sure

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: echo CTRL-V CTRL-G should do the trick Or, more easily, printf \a. Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: Is there any way to make a noise through the built in bell speaker found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout routine might do it, but I've realised I haven't got a clue how to do that. Making it audible is part of the

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:09:44 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: Is there any way to make a noise through the built in bell speaker found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout routine might do it, but I've realised I haven't got