clicky driver

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >>>	at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf)
> >>>	solution.  The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks.  
> >>>	I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for
> >>>	around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness
> >>>	control.  
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> someone posted recently about the play-string language for /dev/speaker, 
> see speaker(4). Could you do something with that?
> 
> btw thanks to whoever posted the play-string code for frere jaques - 
> cracked me up :)
> 
> Chris

	Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-)   --I just tried spkrtest
	and have no /dev/speaker.   

	The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so.  If getting the
	keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were
	that easy, it would have been done after 15 years.  Even Linux
	lacks this--and I'd bet Minux too.  

	What I've got to do is pick up where I kwit ten years ago with the 
	kernel driver code and drop the the code to make the speaker-audio
	create tiny, brief clicks, preferably low, thunky sounds like ye 
	ancient IBM Selectrics.  

	gary




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