Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Cc: ed@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clicky driver Message-ID: <20091227232108.GD18660@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0912270018q4d6f5619i6e6f5c1b26f7e7d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0912262311v270d1d6fqb5e59f1814584a5@mail.gmail.com> <20091227080345.GA30917@thought.org> <d873d5be0912270018q4d6f5619i6e6f5c1b26f7e7d7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 03:18:51AM -0500, b. f. wrote: > On 12/27/09, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: > > > A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't > > the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at something well > > below middle-C: yes, this kind of thing is what I'm thinking of. > > Remember, you can control the pitch and duration of the bell, and this > can change the character of the sound substantially. Try it and see. Can you give me a few suggestions, pul-eze! > > > > What is ed's full email ed[at] where.org, please. > > Guess: FreeB _ _.org. :) (He's cc'ed.) > Sorry; it was late and my mid wa s fried. AT least that my excuse! > > > > If he'll give me the clues, I'll share in the hacking. It is time > > to get this feature builtin to the kernel. Off by default, and on > > at some user-tuneable values. > > If you are talking about doing this by making the keymaps more > flexible, it is easily user-configurable, though perhaps not in an > on/off fashion. ed@ was writing a new console driver for other > reasons, among them unicode support, and I don't know if he planned to > tinker with the keyboard-handling code beyond what would be required > for a interface to a different console driver, but he may be willing > to help. > By 'console driver', do you mean a tty driver? That my my first serious driver a *long* time ago. I'm thinking of something much simpler like the keyboard driver. Not even that; rather, the speaker driver that works via the console. I'm grepping around in /usr/src/sys/dev/*. I *will* find it, or wherever the code goes. It may take awhile. > > b. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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