From: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: howto get a melodic system beep?
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:10:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4768618D.1050400@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4765A5ED.60605@t-online.de>
Harald Dunkel wrote on 16-12-07 23:25:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more
> melodic?
>
> I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel
> to call an external "beep daemon" playing an audio file instead
> (no kidding). But it never worked very well. Sometimes there
> was a huge delay, and some programs were not very nice to the
> system beep.
>
> My X-mas wish would be to get an improvement here.
I think the uinput module can handle this. There's an
example floating around somewhere.
bjd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-19 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 22:25 howto get a melodic system beep? Harald Dunkel
2007-12-16 22:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-16 23:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-19 0:10 ` Bauke Jan Douma [this message]
2008-01-11 23:02 ` Toon van der Pas
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