clicky driver

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 03:18:51AM -0500, b. f. wrote:
> On 12/27/09, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote:
> 
> > 	A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't
> > 	the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at something well
> > 	below middle-C: yes, this kind of thing is what I'm thinking of.
> 
> Remember, you can control the pitch and duration of the bell, and this
> can change the character of the sound substantially.  Try it and see.


	Can you give me a few suggestions, pul-eze!

> 
> 
> > 	What is ed's full email ed[at] where.org, please.
> 
> Guess:  FreeB _ _.org. :) (He's cc'ed.)
> 

	Sorry; it was late and my mid wa s fried.  AT least that my excuse!
> >
> > 	If he'll give me the clues, I'll share in the hacking.  It is time
> > 	to get this feature builtin to the kernel.  Off by default, and on
> > 	at some user-tuneable values.
> 
> If you are talking about doing this by making the keymaps more
> flexible, it is easily user-configurable, though perhaps not in an
> on/off fashion. ed@ was writing a new console driver for other
> reasons, among them unicode support, and I don't know if he planned to
> tinker with the keyboard-handling code beyond what would be required
> for a interface to a different console driver, but he may be willing
> to help.
> 

	By 'console driver', do you mean a tty driver?  That my my first
	serious driver a *long* time ago.  I'm thinking of something much
	simpler like the keyboard driver.  Not even that; rather, the
	speaker driver that works via the console.   I'm grepping around in
	/usr/src/sys/dev/*.  

	I *will* find it, or wherever the code goes.  It may take awhile.

> 
> b.

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