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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:20:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dennis Lindroos <lindroos@can.nls.fi>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alpha/17637: misconfigured syscons bell causes panic on alpha
Message-ID:  <200003290720.XAA02228@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR alpha/17637; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dennis Lindroos <lindroos@can.nls.fi>
To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: alpha/17637: misconfigured syscons bell causes panic on alpha
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:15:35 +0300 (EET DST)

 Hi
 
 On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Bosko Milekic wrote:
 >   It appears that the alpha's sysbeep() does a TIMER_DIV() on the given
 >   pitch, which could cause problems if the pitch is 0.
 >   Please try the following patch and let me know if it works:
 > 
 >   http://pages.infinit.net/bmilekic/code/diffs/alpha.beep.patch
 > 
 > 
 >  ..........................................................................
 >   Bosko Milekic * bmilekic@dsuper.net * http://pages.infinit.net/bmilekic/
 >   Montreal, Quebec, Canada. *  Technokratis:  http://www.technokratis.com/
 > 
  
 Yes. It works, but to turn the bell off completely (without a short tick) i 
 added "if (pitch)" before the "outb(IO_PPI, inb(IO_PPI) | 3);" line.
 (I know i should use the visual bell instead.. :)
 
 Btw. The hardware is an Avanti (AlphaServer 400 4/166).
 
 Dennis Lindroos
 lindroos@nls.fi
 
 


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