From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 03:34:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F5E16A400 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 03:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458AE43D45 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 03:34:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k413Ys8t046701 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:34:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <445581DE.50901@centtech.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:34:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1432/Sun Apr 30 21:24:21 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Boot manager beep (revisited) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 03:34:55 -0000 This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you, that on laptops, that beep is really annoying, and amazingly loud. Is this just waiting for an able minded person to code up the options and submit? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------