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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


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