Re: beep story

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

hugo vanwoerkom(hvw59601@care2.com) is reported to have said:
> Hi Debian!
> 
> I just noticed the beep package. It makes your PC speaker beep with 
> frequency and duration as variables.
> 
> Is there a way to find out how long a Debian package has been around?

I dont't know of any.
> 
> I fiddled with this years ago and ended up with a beeper that could do 
> just that: the idea copied from a window$ program.
> 
> Until... Backstreet Ruby disabled the speaker because of the way the 
> kernel packages it: the former changes the way keyboards are read by the 
> kernel, so no more speaker.
If your using a 2.6.x kernel there is now a config option to
enable/disable it.  Maybe thats why yours isn't working (?).

It's under 'Input Device Drivers' and is called  CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR

I also use the speaker to signal when my PPP conection goes down and
it took me awhile to find that is was now part of the kernel config.

> I liked the speaker version better, but you can't have everything...

I like the beep program as well!

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
Wayne

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