[dundee] ding

[David R. Baird]

On 25 Jun 2003 at 23:50, Mark Harrigan wrote:

> > > 
> > > echo -e "\a"
> > 
> > Not on my machine. No sound card, no speakers. The thing emits a 
> > beep early in the reboot process, I'm presuming it's some kind of 
> > deep hardware-initialisation related thing, most machines seem to 
> > beep at some point in their init. I was wondering if it was 
> > possible to get hold of that system beep thang and call its tune 
> > directly. 
> > 
> That command does create a system beep, just uses the systems inbuilt
> speaker nothing to do with sound cards etc.
> 
> Mark 

Hmm, doesn't work on mine. Ah well, nice idea. But I'll turn off 
kudzu and 1 or 2 others, that should help. Maybe I'll get it to 
open the CD door once I've grokked mounting CD/floppy drives. 

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