Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:18:21 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For Whom The Beep Tolls Message-ID: <4.1.19981022101704.067a7f00@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpn26oooj9.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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At 12:54 PM 10/22/98 +0200, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: >On a lark, I disable the Beep device driver, which controls (wait for it...) >the system speaker. > >No more blue screen. Works fine[0]. > >Yes, friends and neighbors, boys and girls-- my PC speaker crashed NT. >It's pathetic in a sick sort of way; an "enterprise computing environment" >brought to its knees by a beep of doom. > >Almost makes my old digs at a local ISP seem like Recovery. At least UNIX >fails in simple and explainable ways, most of the time. Cute story. On the other hand, FreeBSD's own speaker device -- the one written by Eric Raymond -- has made FreeBSD unstable when I've used it. So maybe the PC speaker is just jinxed? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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