Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:49:33AM -0700, Scott Long wrote..
Thomas E. Zander wrote:
Hi,
just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot
manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned
in bios or anywhere else before loading a sound driver (in this case
snd_ich). This especially means the pc speaker volume is always set to
100% at every boot which results in a horribly loud beep which I am
afraid the built-in "speakers" can't do very often :-)
So what about this one:
--- /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S
+++ boot0.S
@@ -201,9 +201,7 @@
/*
* Start of input loop. Beep and take note of time
*/
-main.10: movb $ASCII_BEL,%al # Signal
- callw putchr # beep!
- xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get
+main.10: xorb %ah,%ah # BIOS: Get
int $0x1a # system time
movw %dx,%di # Ticks when
addw _TICKS(%bp),%di # timeout
This might be an issue on other architectures (amd64?) as well, I
haven't checked that right now.
TIA,
Riggs
The beep is useful for some people who run headless systems, but it
is indeed annoying for others, especially with laptops in quiet places.
We should probably conditionalize this on a variable that can go into
/etc/make.conf. Note that amd64 uses the i386 bits here.
Originally it was introduced (IIRC) to accomodate visually impaired users
of FreeBSD. So the install CDs etc better keep it enabled.
It is highly irritating for everyone else, though.
Scott
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