From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 27 23:21:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A961065676; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:21:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456E38FC1C; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBRNL8JN050879; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "b. f." Message-ID: <20091227232108.GD18660@thought.org> References: <20091227080345.GA30917@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=failed version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: ed@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clicky driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:21:20 -0000 On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 03:18:51AM -0500, b. f. wrote: > On 12/27/09, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: > > > A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't > > the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at something well > > below middle-C: yes, this kind of thing is what I'm thinking of. > > Remember, you can control the pitch and duration of the bell, and this > can change the character of the sound substantially. Try it and see. Can you give me a few suggestions, pul-eze! > > > > What is ed's full email ed[at] where.org, please. > > Guess: FreeB _ _.org. :) (He's cc'ed.) > Sorry; it was late and my mid wa s fried. AT least that my excuse! > > > > If he'll give me the clues, I'll share in the hacking. It is time > > to get this feature builtin to the kernel. Off by default, and on > > at some user-tuneable values. > > If you are talking about doing this by making the keymaps more > flexible, it is easily user-configurable, though perhaps not in an > on/off fashion. ed@ was writing a new console driver for other > reasons, among them unicode support, and I don't know if he planned to > tinker with the keyboard-handling code beyond what would be required > for a interface to a different console driver, but he may be willing > to help. > By 'console driver', do you mean a tty driver? That my my first serious driver a *long* time ago. I'm thinking of something much simpler like the keyboard driver. Not even that; rather, the speaker driver that works via the console. I'm grepping around in /usr/src/sys/dev/*. I *will* find it, or wherever the code goes. It may take awhile. > > b. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php