On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt <fra...@fjl.co.uk> wrote: > In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a > to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic > synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card > and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. > > Is there any way to make a noise through the built in "bell" speaker found on > an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout routine might > do it, but I've realised I haven't got a clue how to do that. > > I could easily knock up a bit of hardware to go on a serial port (or similar) > that could be triggered to make a noise, but these things have already got > the hardware built in and I'm looking to use what I've already got. > > Thanks, Frank. > > P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with so far > for getting attention. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
echo "CTRL-V CTRL-G" should do the trick -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
