From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 26 04:23:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C346D106566B for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC538FC0C for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBQ4NMcN095873; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Chris Whitehouse Message-ID: <20091226042322.GA87670@thought.org> References: <20091225204746.GA60638@thought.org> <20091225220131.96fa1f9d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091225213713.GA66009@thought.org> <20091225225343.a97f8b43.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091225235048.GB66009@thought.org> <4B356295.7090802@onetel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B356295.7090802@onetel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=failed version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: clicky driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:23:26 -0000 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >>> at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf) > >>> solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. > >>> I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for > >>> around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness > >>> control. > > Hi Gary, > > someone posted recently about the play-string language for /dev/speaker, > see speaker(4). Could you do something with that? > > btw thanks to whoever posted the play-string code for frere jaques - > cracked me up :) > > Chris Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried spkrtest and have no /dev/speaker. The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so. If getting the keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were that easy, it would have been done after 15 years. Even Linux lacks this--and I'd bet Minux too. What I've got to do is pick up where I kwit ten years ago with the kernel driver code and drop the the code to make the speaker-audio create tiny, brief clicks, preferably low, thunky sounds like ye ancient IBM Selectrics. gary -- 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