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

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

  So echoing to tty1 do you hear it on your remote machine (via serial 
connection) or just on the local (DL) machine?

On 24/09/2010 12:51, mailing dl2 wrote:
> 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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