Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:57:52 -0700 From: "Bob Hockney" <zeus@ix.netcom.com> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn off keyboard bell Message-ID: <40C75DB0.1928.35E861BB@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040609120153.7eb1573e.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <40C6B8EA.28524.3364AFCC@localhost>
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Chris Pressey wrote: > > I'm having a difficult time turning off the keyboard bell. I have > > tried kbdcontrol -b off and setting keybell="NO" in rc.conf, but this > > only shortens it down to a chirp. If I set kbdcontrol -b visual, then > > the audible bell goes away completely and I get a flashing screen > > instead. What am I missing here? How can I turn the bell off > > completely? This is on a fresh install of 4.9. > > I think this bug has been fixed since 4.9 RELEASE. You might want to > try updating your sources with cvsup, or simply applying the patch that > fixes the bug (below), and rebuilding your kernel. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c.diff?r1=1.336.2.15&r2=1.336.2.16 Thanks Chris, I applied this patch and it solved the problem. Regards, -Bob
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