hugo vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Debian! > > I just noticed the beep package. It makes your PC speaker beep with > frequency and duration as variables. > > Is there a way to find out how long a Debian package has been around?
I dont't know of any. > > I fiddled with this years ago and ended up with a beeper that could do > just that: the idea copied from a window$ program. > > Until... Backstreet Ruby disabled the speaker because of the way the > kernel packages it: the former changes the way keyboards are read by the > kernel, so no more speaker. If your using a 2.6.x kernel there is now a config option to enable/disable it. Maybe thats why yours isn't working (?). It's under 'Input Device Drivers' and is called CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR I also use the speaker to signal when my PPP conection goes down and it took me awhile to find that is was now part of the kernel config. > I liked the speaker version better, but you can't have everything... I like the beep program as well! :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
