Re: kd_mksound() in keyboard.c

[Derrick W. <de...@lo...>]

On Friday 26 March 2004 11:01 am, you wrote:
> 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.

That is very obscure!! Why would PC speaker support be an kernel option?
I performed a very thorough search of the config options. Even using this 
command the search the Kconfig's
# for i in `find | grep Kconfig`; do echo $i;fgrep "speaker" $i;done
if only I had greped for "Speaker" instead of "speaker". Grrrr!!!!

What a waste of time!!!!! (1 full day, before e-mailing for help).

Thanks tho !!!!
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