[dundee] ding

[Mark Harrigan]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +0100, David R. Baird wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2003 at 23:36, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You could use the play command to play some .wav you have.
> > 
> > Or this simple command will produce a beep.
> > 
> > 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