Re: ITP: ditty - Allows you to play melodies from your built-in speaker
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:42:45 +0100
Wouter de Vries <swamp@kermy.nl> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Package: ditty
> License: GPL
> URL: http://www.cowanbox.com/projects/ditty/
>
> Description: Allows you to play melodies from your built-in speaker
> Ditty enables you to play simple melodies from the command line. It does
> NOT require a sound card, as it can use the built-in speaker to play
> these melodies just as easily. (Note: in order for the built-in speaker
> to be used, ditty's stdout must be connected to a tty. Certain terminal
> emulators, such as xterm, don't support the sound controls. If you
> aren't using the sound card method, you should generally run ditty from
> a *real* pseudo-terminal). Some things that may make ditty fun to use
> are: Adding sound-effects to .bash_login and .bash_logout or other
> shellscripts.
Wasn't there a kernel sound driver for the PC speaker? Whatever happened to that thing...?
Regards,
Alex.
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