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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:42:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, =??Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>, obrien@NUXI.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: beep, beep, beep!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901081340430.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr9t5evc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 8 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes:
> > > It seems David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > > > Shouldn't the new boot code be beeping at us? :)
> > > > > Also Also, , make make it it optional optional :) :)
> > > > The beeps are for our un-sighted users.
> > > Yeah, but does it have to be 3 of them, we wouldn't want the
> > > rest of us to go un-hearing now would we :)
> > and i also commented to Jordan, 3 beeps like those mean you cannot
> > do night installs at home without waking up the rest of the family.
> 
> Is that a widespread problem? :)
> 
> On a more serious note, I'd love it if Somebody (tm) patched the
> kernel to beep a couple of times after shutting down (when it displays
> the "press any key to reboot" prompt). Useful when doing maintenance
> on headless machines.

% grep -1 SHUTDOWN mykernel.conf
psuedo-device speaker
options	"PLAY_TAPS_ON_SHUTDOWN"
%

>;)

-Alfred 


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