Re: PC speaker listed as input device

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>The Input subsystem also covers simple beeps, because real keyboards
>beep.  So it was only straight-forward to also put the PC speaker into

"What is real?" -from Matrix

That said, older keyboards, such as SUN4, do indeed beep themselves. In fact,
it's just a matter where the beeper is installed, even on x86, you can see the
history of it, because the IO port for beeps is the same as for keyboard leds.


	-`J'
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