Re: Handling beep

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:23:34AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
>    A question on how to approach this problem. The input api has the
> ablity to send EV_SND events to a input device. Now I like to impliment
> this for the console system via kd_mksound. At present only the sun
> keyboard supports injecting sound which is apart of the keyboard driver.
> For the ix86 platform we have the PC speaker. Now the PC speaker is apart
> of the region the i8042 chipset uses but has nothing to do with the PS/2
> keyboard or mouse.
>    The question is should the beeper be a seperate device and we have a
> hook for it in the console system or do we make it apart of the keyboard
> driver and use the keyboards hook?

We need a separate driver. We should be able to beep even with just a
USB keyboard (and no AT keyboard driver inside the kernel).

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs