From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 12:52:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A8F16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hermes.mail.nl.demon.net (hermes.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.72.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55BF43D53 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:52:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jes@nl.demon.net) Received: from jes.noc.nl.demon.net ([194.159.72.196]:4649) by hermes.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CZqRP-0007ky-5w; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:52:11 +0000 Received: from jes by jes.noc.nl.demon.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1CZqRP-0002Ab-00; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:52:11 +0000 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:52:11 +0100 From: Jim Segrave To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Message-ID: <20041202125211.GA5766@nl.demon.net> References: <41AD9D12.2020506@hacksocke.de> <16814.23799.439022.760893@osprey.kermodei.com> <20041202.130802.40349122.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041202.130802.40349122.hanche@math.ntnu.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organisation: Demon Internet Netherlands cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Startup with a beep X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jes@nl.demon.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:52:12 -0000 On Thu 02 Dec 2004 (13:08 +0100), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Mark Diekhans : > > | Carsten Zimmermann writes: > | > I upgraded lately to a clean iso installed 5.3-R. From then, my laptop > | > always gives an eeky "beeeeeeep" when the boot loader prompts. It was > | > all silent with 5.2.1 and I'd like it to be that way again ;) > | > | I found this really annoying and dug into the code and patch it > | on my system. The enclose patch gets rid of this. [...] > | If you can file a pr on this it would be great.. > > While I agree that the beep is annoying, and will probably employ your > patch on my laptop (thanks!), I might mention that the beep is > probably there for a good reason: As an aid to booting machines with > just a serial console attached. See "Tips for Serial Console Users" > in INSTALL.TXT. An easy option to installing a beepless boot loader > might be welcome, but making the default silent is probably not a good > idea. I think making the beep optional, default = off is a much better idea. If you're going to build a server with only serial console support, you need to know what you're doing anyway. -- Jim Segrave jes@nl.demon.net