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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:49:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: laptop speaker question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010925144943.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200109252059.f8PKxs701428@csa.bu.edu>

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On 25-Sep-01 Evan Sarmiento wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm in a strange predicament. My laptop has no sound device,
> meaning I can not use 'mixer speaker 0:0'. My hands are quite
> twitchy, meaning I cause FreeBSD to beep when I press
> backspace to many times or an incorrect combonation of keys.
> This upsets my classmates to the nTH degree, who are trying to
> take notes.
> 
> Is there a way I could mute the speaker? There is no /dev/speaker,
> and speaker is not in my kernel conf.
> 
> I would appreciate any input on this,

Hack the sysbeep() function in sys/i386/isa/clock.c and make it just return
immediately instead of doing anything if you want. :)

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