On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> I did notice that the default Alpha beep is of a much higher frequency
> than the x86 one. Any relation? (long shot... I suppose)
This bug is well known (including by your mailbox). From mail sent to
your mailbox:
% From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 18 17:40:56 2001 +1000
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% From: Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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% Subject: Re: alpha/17637: misconfigured syscons bell causes panic on alpha
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% On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote:
%
% > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:14:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% >
% > > Problem was fixed long ago, so let us also close the PR..
% > >
% > > ----------------------------
% > > revision 1.15
% > > date: 2000/03/30 22:39:48; author: billf; state: Exp; lines: +5 -3
% > > Avoid dividing by zero when beeping with a zero pitch. This was bad.
% > >
% > > PR: alpha/17637
% > > Submitted by: Bosko Milekic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% > > Reported by: Dennis Lindroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% >
% > As I recall, bde had issues with my fix. I don't remember them, though.
%
% From my saved mail (only the initial reply):
%
% | Patches in PRs are rarely suitable for committing verbatim, and this one
% | was no exception :-). It has:
% |
% | 1) Style bugs on every line (2 "if (foo) bar;"'s and 2 gratuitous new
% | empty lines).
% | 2) Internally inconsistent code. The `pitch' arg is now loaded into the
% | timer counter unchanged in the pitch == 0 case.
% | 3) Doesn't fix the real bug, which is that `pitch' isn't actually the
% | pitch; it is a raw i8254 maximum count which must be loaded directly
% | into the i8254 counter, as it is in the i386 version of sysbeep().
% | Callers must convert from pitches in Hz to "pitch"es in i8254 counts,
% | although this interface is Broken As Designed (AFAIK it is for bug
% | for bug compatibility with a BAD SCO interface). The conversion
% | is impossible to do correctly for alphas, since the necessary
% | conversion factor (timer_freq) is not exported from clock.c alphas.
% | The necessary conversion factor is not exported from the kernel
% | for any arch, so kbdcontrol(1) hard-codes it as 1193182. Fortunately
% | (?), this is almost correct for alphas. Note that 1193182 is close
% | to 10^6, so popular pitches near 1000 Hz have the magic property
% | of not being changed much by the conversion. This limits complaints
% | about bizarre beep frequencies. We use a default of BELL_PITCH =
% | 800; this becomes 1193182 / 800 = 1491 on alphas.
% |
% | Perhaps users shouldn't be allowed to program bizarre i8254 counts of 0
% | and >= 65536. Counts >= 65536 are truncated modulo 65536. At least the
% | KDMKTONE ioctl does the truncation silently.
% |
% | The sysbeep() interface also confuses:
% | dev/mlx/mlx.c: hard-coded i8254 count of 500.
% | i386/isa/pcvt/*: hard-coded timer_freq of 1193182 and strange differences
% | in default pitches 1493 and 1500.
% | i386/i386/trap.c: hard-coded timer_freq of TIMER_FREQ.
% | pccard/pccard_beep.c: hard-coded i8254 counts of 1600, 1200, 3200 are named
% | as pitches.
% <End of old mail>
%
% Even kbdcontrol.c is confused about this:
%
% | void
% | set_bell_values(char *opt)
% | {
% | int bell, duration, pitch;
% |
% | bell = 0;
% | if (!strncmp(opt, "quiet.", 6)) {
% | bell = 2;
% | opt += 6;
% | }
% | if (!strcmp(opt, "visual"))
% | bell |= 1;
% | else if (!strcmp(opt, "normal"))
% | duration = 5, pitch = 800;
% | else if (!strcmp(opt, "off"))
% | duration = 0, pitch = 0;
% | else {
% | char *v1;
% |
% | bell = 0;
% | duration = strtol(opt, &v1, 0);
% | if ((duration < 0) || (*v1 != '.'))
% | goto badopt;
% | opt = ++v1;
% | pitch = strtol(opt, &v1, 0);
% | if ((pitch < 0) || (*opt == '\0') || (*v1 != '\0')) {
% | badopt:
% | warnx("argument to -b must be duration.pitch or
[quiet.]visual|normal|off");
% | return;
% | }
%
% `pitch' is now actually in Hz.
%
% | if (pitch != 0)
% | pitch = 1193182 / pitch; /* in Hz */
%
% Bogus comment. `pitch' is NOT in Hz. It is now a dimensionless number.
%
% | duration /= 10; /* in 10 m sec */
% | }
% |
% | ioctl(0, CONS_BELLTYPE, &bell);
% | if ((bell & ~2) == 0)
% | fprintf(stderr, "[=%d;%dB", pitch, duration);
% | }
%
% Bruce
%
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% Subject: Re: alpha/17637: misconfigured syscons bell causes panic on alpha
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% On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:
%
% > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:40:51PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
% > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote:
% > >
% > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:14:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% > > >
% > > > > Problem was fixed long ago, so let us also close the PR..
% > > > >
% > > > > ----------------------------
% > > > > revision 1.15
% > > > > date: 2000/03/30 22:39:48; author: billf; state: Exp; lines: +5 -3
% > > > > Avoid dividing by zero when beeping with a zero pitch. This was bad.
% > > > >
% > > > > PR: alpha/17637
% > > > > Submitted by: Bosko Milekic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% > > > > Reported by: Dennis Lindroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% > > >
% > > > As I recall, bde had issues with my fix. I don't remember them, though.
% > >
% > > >From my saved mail (only the initial reply):
% > >
% > > | Patches in PRs are rarely suitable for committing verbatim, and this one
% > > | was no exception :-). It has:
% >
% > But it appears to be in the RELENG_4 source code more or less verbatim.
%
% Yes. The bogus patch was MFC. It was also MFa (to ia64) together with
% the broken alpha sysbeep() to give inverted pitches on ia64's too.
%
% > So closing the PR was still valid. Or?
%
% No.
%
% Bruce
Related (cosmetic) fixes for kbdcontrol(1):
diff -c2 kbdcontrol.c~ kbdcontrol.c
*** kbdcontrol.c~ Mon Jul 16 02:18:36 2001
--- kbdcontrol.c Tue Aug 28 22:27:39 2001
***************
*** 882,886 ****
set_bell_values(char *opt)
{
! int bell, duration, pitch;
bell = 0;
--- 882,886 ----
set_bell_values(char *opt)
{
! int bell, duration, period, pitch;
bell = 0;
***************
*** 889,898 ****
opt += 6;
}
! if (!strcmp(opt, "visual"))
bell |= 1;
! else if (!strcmp(opt, "normal"))
! duration = 5, pitch = 800;
else if (!strcmp(opt, "off"))
! duration = 0, pitch = 0;
else {
char *v1;
--- 889,903 ----
opt += 6;
}
! if (!strcmp(opt, "visual")) {
bell |= 1;
! duration = 0, period = 0; /* XXX */
! } else if (!strcmp(opt, "normal"))
! /*
! * XXX the historical normal "pitch" of 800 Hz is actually
! * a period of 800 IBM-PC-i8254 cycles or 670 usec.
! */
! duration = 5, period = 800;
else if (!strcmp(opt, "off"))
! duration = 0, period = 0; /* XXX */
else {
char *v1;
***************
*** 910,914 ****
}
if (pitch != 0)
! pitch = 1193182 / pitch; /* in Hz */
duration /= 10; /* in 10 m sec */
}
--- 915,931 ----
}
if (pitch != 0)
! /*
! * XXX the boundary cases are broken. The kernel
! * silently truncates large periods modulo 0x10000
! * (18.2 msec). I'm not sure what a period of 0
! * does.
! */
! period = 1193182 / pitch; /* in i8254 cycles */
! else
! /*
! * A pitch of 0 should give a period of "infinity"
! * (actually 65535). But be bug for bug compatible.
! */
! period = 0;
duration /= 10; /* in 10 m sec */
}
***************
*** 916,920 ****
ioctl(0, CONS_BELLTYPE, &bell);
if ((bell & ~2) == 0)
! fprintf(stderr, "[=%d;%dB", pitch, duration);
}
--- 933,937 ----
ioctl(0, CONS_BELLTYPE, &bell);
if ((bell & ~2) == 0)
! fprintf(stderr, "[=%d;%dB", period, duration);
}
Some of the my original mail seems to be inverted. My current understanding
is:
- the default pitch for sysbeep() is 800 <somethings> on both alphas and
i386's. The alpha sysbeep() bogusly (not bug for bug compatibly)
inverts 800 (in Hz) to get a period (in i8254 timer cycles), so the
default pitch is actually a pitch on alphas; it's only on i386's that
800 (cylces) becomes 1491 (Hz).
- non-default pitches (set by kbdcontrol(1)) are converted to backwards-
compatible (broken as designed) units in kbdcontrol(1), so the breakage
is reversed: explicitly requesting 800 Hz gives 800 Hz on i386's and
1491 Hz on alphas.
- I don't quite understand why you say that the default beep pitch is
higher on alphas. It's the non-default beep pitch that is higher.
- places that have pre-inverted "pitches" of about 1491 (cycles) (pcvt,
pccard, etc.) have too-high beep frequencies on alphas.
Bruce
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