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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

The 'normal' DL beep doesn't use the bell character, the program
controls the PC speaker directly as far as I remember.

Heiko

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Raferd [mailto:dl...@ed...]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 9:29 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Beep in serial mode
> 
>   Ok, I'm glad it worked then. It works for me too with >/dev/tty1, or
> >/dev/tty0. Does it work for you with /dev/tty0?
> 
> I am trying to understand why the normal DL startup beep doesn't work
> for you. Googling 'man beep', there is a suggestion about chmod 4755
> beep which might help.
> 
> Can anyone else using DL through serial console configured by
install-on-
> usb confirm that they don't hear startup beeps at the DL box?
> 
> Dominic
> 
> On 24/09/2010 14:56, mailing dl2 wrote:
> > In fact I was looking to hear the beep at the DL box, when you are
in
> > front of the computer and you are not sure if it has finished its
boot
> > process.
> >
> > So your answer match my need.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > 2010/9/24 Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
> >>   Sorry then maybe this isn't a solution for you. You might check
the
> >> settings of your serial-connection client machine, maybe there is a
> >> way to enable the bell sound. For instance Putty offers different
> >> actions upon receiving a bell via the terminal. Maybe your client
is
> >> just ignoring the bell character when it receives it (via ttyS0)?
> >>
> >> On 24/09/2010 13:58, mailing dl2 wrote:
> >>> Yes, when I redirect to tty1, I hear it on the DL box.
> >>>
> >>> I will add a script at startup with : echo -e "\a">    /dev/tty1
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> 2010/9/24 Dominic Raferd<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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