Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Beep in serial mode

[mailing d. <mai...@gm...>]

I did the test and the result is:

through serial port (ttyS0) I do not hear the beep
through console port (tty1) I do hear the beep

Regards.

2010/9/24 Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:
>  I don't use serial mode but does it work if you echo a bell character
> (ASCII 07)?
>
> echo -e "\a"
>
> Or for several bells, not as distinctive as DL's normal start-up beep
> but might be adequate for a start-up signal:
>
> for n in {3..7}; do echo -en "\a"; sleep 0.$((10-$n))s; done
>
> Dominic
>
> On 24/09/2010 08:31, mailing dl2 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use our DL boxes in serial mode (install-on-usb) as it is easier to
>> have serial acces than KVM access on remote sites.
>>
>> The problem we face is that in serial mode, the beep at the end of the
>> startup process are not working.
>>
>> At the startup it outputs this:
>>
>> Starting beep system-up noises:
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>> ioctl: Invalid argument
>>
>> When I type "beep" through serial port (ttyS0) it outputs the error
>> message and it does not beep.
>> And when I type "beep" through console (tty1) it outputs the error
>> message but it does beep.
>>
>> It is realy usefull to hear the beep when you (or a non technical
>> user) are in a technical without acces to a monitor.
>> We really miss it.
>>
>> Regards.
>
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