Subject: Re: Beep on halt (with sysctl)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/21/2002 15:52:10
* Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca> [1027 16:27]:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Julio Merino wrote:
> >     kern.beep.pitch  (int - the frequency of the tone, default 1500)
> >     kern.beep.period (int - the period of the tone, default 250)
> >     kern.beep.onhalt (int - how many tones, default 0)
> >
> > This new node (beep) implies the modification of sysctl with a small patch
> > (attached to). What I've done is generalize the idea, so that new
> > "beep events" can be added easily, for example kern.beep.onreboot should
> > be trivial to implement (or kern.beep.onddb, etc etc).
> 
> It would be nice to be able to specify different pitch/periods for
> different events :).
 
We are starting to veer into this kind of thing now, aren't we?  


http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=355

FWIW, I reckon a compile-time option makes sense
(I find BLINK_LED very useful on my headless sparc personally)

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