Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:40:56 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager beep Message-ID: <20051209154056.GA21926@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4399997D.7010304@samsco.org> References: <20051209093610.GR898@marvin.riggiland.au> <4399997D.7010304@samsco.org>
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:49:33AM -0700, Scott Long wrote.. > 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. Originally it was introduced (IIRC) to accomodate visually impaired users of FreeBSD. So the install CDs etc better keep it enabled. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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