Re: kd_mksound() in keyboard.c

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

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:29:57AM -0500, Derrick Wippler wrote:

> It appears that the KIOCSOUND ioctl call is broken in the 2.6 kernels.
> KIOSOUND calls kd_nosound() and kd_mksound() in linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c
> to emit sound. These functions do not appear to be working, I am quickly 
> trying to learn the input API and how the input_event() request that 
> kd_mksound() calls is failing. However there is very little documentation on 
> the subject, and because I'm not familiar with input devices the code is 
> confusing. 
> 
> For example, in kd_mksound() the code loops thru a list of (I'm assuming) 
> keyboard devices, looking for one that has the EV_SND bit turned on. But it 
> never finds any. So I'm attempting to find where the handle->dev->evbit bit 
> is set. I'm assuming that would be when the input device is registered with 
> the input API, but I cannot seam to find it!! 
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

You probably should enable the PC Speaker driver under Input/Misc.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR