Just something to look out for. My laptop would do odd things if the audio was muted. I seem to remember it blocking forever if say the device was muted or something along those lines. Let me also say this was under 4.x and that sound card never worked after 5.2.1 so its possible it was a funky driver issue.
echo 'System going down' | logger /dev/speaker < /boot/kernel/kern.gz -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:40 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] why beep(1) when you can speaker(4) No, it's not active yet. It will not show up until 0.86.2. Scott On 10/3/05, Jonathan Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scott, is the beep script active, i upgraded to 0.86 which i'm assuming > is the right one. when i rebooted i heard nothing. just wondering if/how > i get it active, thanks :) > > Scott Ullrich wrote: > > >Hrm. Good point. I didn't honestly know you could echo items to > >/dev/speaker to have it play sounds. Currently we are using beep > >from the FreeBSD ports tree with a small wrapper script that plays > >tones going up (machine is up) or tones going down (machine is on its > >way down). > > > >Thanks to Seth Mos for putting together the script. > > > >Scott > > > > > >On 10/3/05, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I was just browsing the kernel config files for pfsense and noticed > >>that the speaker pseudo device is built in. Then I recalled the > >>'beep' discussion... which got me to thinking: Why use beep when you > >>can just echo strings into /dev/speaker and play lots of nice > >>tunes? You could even make the theme music customizable :-) > >> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
