/usr/ports/audio/beep requires /dev/speaker

Reuben A. Popp rapopp at eastcentral.edu
Mon Apr 7 20:43:23 UTC 2008


Just a suggestion that a blurb be put in as part of the post-install 
of /usr/ports/audio/beep that it requires /dev/speaker.  If one tries to run 
beep without /dev/speaker, beep will error.

IIRC, GENERIC doesn't include the device entry for speaker anymore and thus 
requires one to load the module for speaker via:

kldload speaker

Once that is done, beep will work as expected.  The default permissions 
for /dev/speaker is 600 as well.

Thanks
Reuben

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Reuben A. Popp
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East Central College
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