"I'm sorry, did you want the five-minute argument, or the full
half-hour?"

Seriously, I can think of better things to do with my time than going
back & forth endlessly about the best way to make a beeping
noise...anyway:

=?iso-8859-1?q?Laurent=20FAILLIE?= <l_faillie@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, I juste test it on my SS5 : the console is ttya
> but the PC on the other side of the cable is not on
> for the moment.

Well, duh! I'll bet if you unplug your speakers, you'll notice the same
"problem" when you write to /dev/audio.

It goes without saying that if you want to elicit sound from a device
(terminal, speakers, etc.), that device should be turned on and plugged
in...

Dan
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