Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:17:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pc speaker beep pitch Message-ID: <20001007181719.G255@parish> In-Reply-To: <20001008034251.F29372@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:42:53AM %2B1000 References: <20001008004827.E29372@welearn.com.au> <20001007153630.A255@parish> <20001008034251.F29372@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:42:53AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> 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.
>
See my follow-up e-mail
> 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"
>
If that doesn't work add this to /etc/rc.conf:
echo -n ' bell'
for ttyv in /dev/ttyv*; do
kbdcontrol -b 100.400 < ${ttyv} > ${ttyv} 2>&1
done
> 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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