From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 22 09:19:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15968 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:19:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15963 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA25417; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:18:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981022101704.067a7f00@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:18:21 -0600 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: For Whom The Beep Tolls In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA15964 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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