Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:42:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, =??Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>, obrien@NUXI.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beep, beep, beep! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901081340430.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpr9t5evc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 8 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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. % grep -1 SHUTDOWN mykernel.conf psuedo-device speaker options "PLAY_TAPS_ON_SHUTDOWN" % >;) -Alfred > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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