How do I ring a bell?

[Leslie Jensen]

Frank Leonhardt skrev 2013-10-07 13:37:
> In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending
> \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic
> synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound
> card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS.
>
> Is there any way to make a noise through the built in "bell" speaker
> found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout
> routine might do it, but I've realised I haven't got a clue how to do that.
>
> I could easily knock up a bit of hardware to go on a serial port (or
> similar) that could be triggered to make a noise, but these things have
> already got the hardware built in and I'm looking to use what I've
> already got.
>
> Thanks, Frank.
>
> P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with so
> far for getting attention.
>
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You also have the audio/yell port.