Subject: Re: /dev/spkr is cool! (was: new console driver code)
To: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1998 09:07:18
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:04:06AM -0600, Brian C. Grayson wrote:
> > The attribute "pckbd" in the kernel configuration files
> > - where PS/2 mice (pms) and that speaker device which
> > probably nobody uses (spkr) attach to - is now called
> > "pckbcport".
> 
>   I'm probably in the minority, but I think /dev/spkr is quite
> handy, so I'm speaking up in its defense!

One more vote for /dev/spkr.  I use it to alarm the operators in a server
room and to give other warnings and information beeps.  Please don't
remove it!

  -jm