Date: 08 Jan 1999 14:40:44 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt), obrien@NUXI.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beep, beep, beep! Message-ID: <xzpr9t5evc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:23:12 %2B0100 (MET)" References: <199901080523.GAA10518@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes: > > It seems David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > Shouldn't the new boot code be beeping at us? :) > > > > Also Also, , make make it it optional optional :) :) > > > The beeps are for our un-sighted users. > > Yeah, but does it have to be 3 of them, we wouldn't want the > > rest of us to go un-hearing now would we :) > and i also commented to Jordan, 3 beeps like those mean you cannot > do night installs at home without waking up the rest of the family. Is that a widespread problem? :) On a more serious note, I'd love it if Somebody (tm) patched the kernel to beep a couple of times after shutting down (when it displays the "press any key to reboot" prompt). Useful when doing maintenance on headless machines. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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