Willie Walker wrote:
>> You might want to consider just playing an ordinary audio file
>> instead of relying on the beep.
>
> Thanks Garrett! The particular situation I'm dealing with is
> providing an audible prompt to let the user know that the language and
> keyboard layout selection prompts of the live CD are up. This happens
> very early in the boot process of the live CD.
>
> Do you know if the system has the appropriate audio drivers and
> binaries available at the time that these prompts are issued (and what
> the path to the binary would be)? If so, this could actually be a
> graceful solution to the problem.
It *should*... although I've not looked at the live CD in particular.
If you run "/usr/bin/audioplay <some wav or au file>" as root it should
Just Work.
There is a small class of systems that won't have a configured or
available audio device, but for which a keyboard bell does exist and
works. I'm not sure how important those systems will be to you. (They
are typically servers.)
-- Garrett
>
> Will
