On Monday 01 May 2006 08:22, Eric Anderson wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2006-05-01 03:29, Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:15:44PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> ... > >>> I'd certainly prefer it if the beep was turned *off* by default, > >>> but I'm not sure if that's what everyone prefers. This is why I > >>> opted for keeping the current behavior and making my personal > >>> preference an option :) > >> i do prefer it off. > >> and my laptop has no volume control available at boot. > >> many new laptops have everything in software, which means > >> very little controls available at boot time. > > > > I know the feeling. The lack of a control in my laptop was what > > initially prompted me to look at ways to turn it off :) > > Me too. I have no way to turn it off in the BIOS. > > Does having a beep at the boot prompt really help out those who are > visually impaired? Seem that there are 100 other hurdles that would > make that pretty much useless in the end. As far as headless booting, > the beep is nice, but could be an optional loader.conf tweak that > enables a kernel beep instead, right? I have lots of headless machines, > and a beep is barely heard over the roar of thousands of hard drives and > many tens of tons of AC rumbling. > > Maybe an alternate option is to compile both the beeping and a beepless > boot loader, and have the boot0cfg program install the right one > depending on a command line option? Hmm.. Maybe that's too cheesy..
It used to only beep for invalid input, but when someone was adding some other feature a while back they had to make the beep happen on startup as well due to size constraints. I'm not a fan of it either. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
