From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 7 13:00:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F06A95 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D69ED21C1 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B305E1FA; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:48:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.965 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.965 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.033, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id DOY-PeBBP4HY; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:48:31 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.111] (c224-156-70-80.bjare.net [80.70.156.224]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DB75E16B; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5252AD9A.7060807@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:48:26 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Leonhardt Subject: Re: How do I ring a bell? References: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:00:48 -0000 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 beep routine in the BIOS. > > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks, Frank. > > P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with so > far for getting attention. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" You also have the audio/yell port.