From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 9:36:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599EC37B503; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA32386; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:42:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:42:53 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pc speaker beep pitch Message-ID: <20001008034251.F29372@welearn.com.au> References: <20001008004827.E29372@welearn.com.au> <20001007153630.A255@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20001007153630.A255@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 03:36:30PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message