PROPOSAL: PC Speaker toggle

Sean M. Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:01:02 -0600 (CST)

Let's face it, that nasty PC speaker is annoying as hell. *BEEEP BEEEP*
Most people that I know have already physically disconnected the thing
from their computer. I don't want to do that though. Can we make a file in
/proc/sys/kernel, possibly called 'speaker' which will store a bolean
integer used to enable/disable the PC speaker?

I have a patch here that was originally made for 2.1.21 [I think] by Aaron
Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu), and have updated it to work on 2.1.88.
If anybody would like me to send them the patch let me know.

I think /proc/sys/kernel/speaker should be added to the kernel. Really all
it requires is another addition to the sysctl interface, and an extra
integer in the kernel )speaker_sound) which holds the current state of the
speaker.

I'd appreciate any feedback that anybody has on this topic.

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Sean M. Kelly
smkelly@zombie.org

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