From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 7 12:33:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1269523A for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:33:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B822FE9 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VT9Zm-0000XR-1p; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:06:14 +0200 Received: from 5419839c.cm-5-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.25.131.156] helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VT9Zl-0005Rj-K8; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:06:14 +0200 Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620BD39877; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:06:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at boosten.org Received: from ra.egypt.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (ra.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vAT3IotEejjC; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:06:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mbp.egypt.nl (mbp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EAC9E39849; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:06:09 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: How do I ring a bell? From: Peter Boosten In-Reply-To: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:06:07 +0200 Message-Id: References: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk> To: Frank Leonhardt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1, BAYES_00=-1.9, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982, SPF_PASS=-0.001 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:33:36 -0000 On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, 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). 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 beep routine in the = BIOS. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I could easily knock up a bit of hardware to go on a serial port (or = similar) that could be triggered to make a noise, but these things have = already got the hardware built in and I'm looking to use what I've = already got. >=20 > Thanks, Frank. >=20 > P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with = so far for getting attention. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" echo "CTRL-V CTRL-G" should do the trick=20 --=20 Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org