Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:49:33 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager beep Message-ID: <4399997D.7010304@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20051209093610.GR898@marvin.riggiland.au> References: <20051209093610.GR898@marvin.riggiland.au>
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Thomas E. Zander wrote: > Hi, > > just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot > manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned > in bios or anywhere else before loading a sound driver (in this case > snd_ich). This especially means the pc speaker volume is always set to > 100% at every boot which results in a horribly loud beep which I am > afraid the built-in "speakers" can't do very often :-) > > So what about this one: > > --- /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S > +++ boot0.S > @@ -201,9 +201,7 @@ > /* > * Start of input loop. Beep and take note of time > */ > -main.10: movb $ASCII_BEL,%al # Signal > - callw putchr # beep! > - xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get > +main.10: xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get > int $0x1a # system time > movw %dx,%di # Ticks when > addw _TICKS(%bp),%di # timeout > > This might be an issue on other architectures (amd64?) as well, I > haven't checked that right now. > > TIA, > Riggs > The beep is useful for some people who run headless systems, but it is indeed annoying for others, especially with laptops in quiet places. We should probably conditionalize this on a variable that can go into /etc/make.conf. Note that amd64 uses the i386 bits here. Scott
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