Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-15 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
Sorry for the late reply! The regular bell character starts to beep, stops beeping after a short time, and then lets me continue. The freecom beep starts to beep, beeps forever (I presume, I haven't tested it that long) and doesn't let me do anything else. I was able to fix my copy via the hex edi

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-13 Thread tom ehlert
> Thanks, I will try the patch out when I get a little time. patches are not too helpful in an open source OS. > The regular bell character doesn't hang, so I wonder why freecom > implements its own version. you aren't entirely clear in your bug description: does it start to beep, and then be

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-13 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Eric Auer, am Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2020 um 12:19 schrieben Sie: > Hi Rugxulo, > Thank you for your binary patch but... >> 1). 2016-May-6: "[Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when >> run in Intel Skylelake platorm." >> * https://so

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-13 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
1). 2016-May-6: "[Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when > > run in Intel Skylelake platorm." > > * https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/35068370/ > > > > 2). 2017-Jun-9: "#189 Beep function freezes on recently intel platform &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, Thank you for your binary patch but... > 1). 2016-May-6: "[Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when > run in Intel Skylelake platorm." > * https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/35068370/ > > 2). 2017-Jun-9: "#189 Beep

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 10:48 AM Johnpaul Humphrey wrote: > > I am running FD12 on an HP Pavilion that is about three years old. This was reported at least twice in recent years: 1). 2016-May-6: "[Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake p

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-08 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
FreeDOS does only hangs for a little bit on the message. My version is "0.84-pre2" the version that ships with the standard USB install. So the problem does not appear to be delay(). Maybe the problem is nosound()? Maybe the keyboard has an error? or the computer itself? I can write a test program

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! In short, your FreeCOM beeps are infinitely long. As you saym beep_l.c and beep_n.c implements them as beep_low() and beep() as follows: void beep_low(void) { sound(900); delay(200); /* 400 */ nosound(); delay(100); } void beep(void) { sound(900); delay(200); /* 400 */ nosoun

[Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-08 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
Hi Developers, I noticed that when I tab complete in the default shell, (freecom, I think) that it beeps, and is stuck beeping for a long time. I have not been able to see how long till it stops, but if it stops at all, it is much longer than it should be. The only way I have found to stop it is t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo et al, > > of course when I said that: > >>> In related news, the tab completion beep of FreeCOM can hang in DOSEMU. > > I was not looking for a work-around like that: I know, but beeping isn't what I'd call essential behavior

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo et al, of course when I said that: >> In related news, the tab completion beep of FreeCOM can hang in DOSEMU. I was not looking for a work-around like that: > You could always zero out the "BEEP\0" string to disable the interactive > command, but the actual beeping code is still inc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >>> When we test FreeDOS latest version, w found beep command can't stop >>> sounding in Intel Skylake platform. > > In related news, the tab completion beep of FreeCOM can hang in DOSEMU. You could always zero out the "BEEP\0" string to di

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-09 Thread 孙国祥
n't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm. (Eric Auer) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 10:54:11 + From: MikeSun(???) Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake. To: "freedos-devel@lists.so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:05 AM, wrote: > > On May 6, 2016 6:42 AM, "MikeSun(孙国祥)" wrote: >> >> Hello developer, >> >> I’m BIOS vendor-AMI. >> >> When we test FreeDOS latest version, w found beep command can't stop >> sounding in Intel Skylake platform. >> >> But we build beep source code(fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) >> I’m BIOS vendor-AMI. >> >> When we test FreeDOS latest version, w found beep command can't stop >> sounding in Intel Skylake platform. In related news, the tab completion beep of FreeCOM can hang in DOSEMU. Regards, Eric -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-06 Thread perditionc
On May 6, 2016 6:42 AM, "MikeSun(孙国祥)" wrote: > > Hello developer, > > > > I’m BIOS vendor-AMI. > > When we test FreeDOS latest version, w found beep command can't stop sounding in Intel Skylake platform. > > > > But we build beep source code(from FreeDos open source) by Watcom C tool and run beep

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake.

2016-05-06 Thread 孙国祥
sage-ID: <225b195e-6c52-4db2-be66-08bb9eec1...@shidel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello All, Sorry that it took so long, but I have been swamped the last couple weeks. Anyhow, I updated vinfo in V8Power tools to detect QEMU. So, FDI should no longer get stuck by trying to create a RAMDRIV

[Freedos-devel] Beep command can't stop sounding when run in Intel Skylelake platorm.

2016-05-06 Thread 孙国祥
Hello developer, I’m BIOS vendor-AMI. When we test FreeDOS latest version, w found beep command can't stop sounding in Intel Skylake platform. But we build beep source code(from FreeDos open source) by Watcom C tool and run beep.exe in FreeDOS. Beep.exe work normally. Did anybody meet this

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console (was Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP)

2004-08-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Steffen Kaiser escribió: Til this time there had be no suggestion to overcome the requirement about how to detect if: 1) FreeCOM's input comes from the local keyboard (in opposite to FreeCOM MUST use the file descriptor #0 or the "read from stdin" DOS APIs) and 2) FreeCOM's output goes to

[Freedos-devel] How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console (was Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP)

2004-08-02 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote: OK, I had already promised that BEEP can: + be silent, + print \a,& + do some PC speaker sounding. And the user decide, what to do. The default would be '\a', as it is the most compatible beep at all. no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct hardwar

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-08-01 Thread HCL BA
Hi Lucho, Don't beep, please! It's so alarming after midnight! So, beep BEFORE, but not AFTER midnight! ;-) You are humorous! Good to know you're back! Machine cannot read our mind. Or wouldn't it be better to add a /QUIET option and beep (via putchar('\a')) only if it's absent? It saves a few by

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-31 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Don't beep, please! It's so alarming after midnight! So, beep BEFORE, but not AFTER midnight! ;-) Or wouldn't it be better to add a /QUIET option and beep (via putchar('\a')) only if it's absent? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-31 Thread HCL BA
Hi, At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 4:07pm +0200, tom ehlert wrote: > > in that case, I vote for MS compatibility: don't beep at all. > > (the default BIOS beep is really dull) > > tom I would agree. I don't like beeping on tab completion, personally. -uso. Don't beep, please! It's so alarming after midnight!

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:12:21 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: Hi Uso, >I would agree. I don't like beeping on tab completion, personally. I vote "no beep". We have same taste :-) Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Alain
Yes, FreeCOM has to work over serial lines. In embeded this is used. Alain Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: Hello Bart and Tom, Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not on the PC where FreeCOM

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hello Bart and Tom, Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs. So I vote for putchar('\007'); no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct hardwar

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Steve Nickolas escribió: At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 4:07pm +0200, tom ehlert wrote: Hello Bart, Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs. So I v

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Steve Nickolas
At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 4:07pm +0200, tom ehlert wrote: > Hello Bart, > > > Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial > > line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not > > on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs. > > > So I vote for > > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bart, > Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial > line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not > on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs. > So I vote for >putchar('\007'); > no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct ha

[Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Bart Oldeman
Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs. So I vote for putchar('\007'); no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct hardware, just keep it simp