Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:42:53 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pc speaker beep pitch Message-ID: <20001008034251.F29372@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001007153630.A255@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 03:36:30PM %2B0100 References: <20001008004827.E29372@welearn.com.au> <20001007153630.A255@parish>
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 03:36:30PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 12:48:29AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> > When the pc spekaer beeps on error, it's slightly off key, kinda G
> > half-sharp.
> >
> > Is there somewhere I can go in and tune it?
> >
>
> When I first read that line I thought you were joking :)
Well, it's not going to ruin my day if I can't get it tuned in, but
it would still be nice to know how it works :-)
> Anyway, read kbdcontrol(1), the ``-b'' option. Not sure if this
> carries over into X though.
Thanks, and you're right, it doesn't work for X. I'll have to look
elsewhere for that.
kbdcontrol works fine on the current virtual console, but the others
are unaffected. The kbdcontrol man page suggests it would need to be
set in rc.conf to cover them all, and in rc.conf I see
keybell="NO"
with no hints about what it can be changed to. Following the syntax
shown in kbdcontrol(1) it could be changed to something like
keybell="100.440"
With this much I can set a distinctive pitch on my parrot's workstation
so that he doesn't learn to beep at the pitch of my machine in order to
get an amusing reaction from the human. I'll also get some auditory
warning when he stops playing with his own keybard and starts pretending
to be me on IRC at the other computer.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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