[ On Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 13:37:02 (+0200), Julio Merino wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Beep on halt (with sysctl)
>
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:23:52 +1000
> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >    
> >        kern.beep.pitch  (int - the frequency of the tone, default 1500)
> >        kern.beep.period (int - the period of the tone, default 250)
> >        kern.beep.onhalt (int - how many tones, default 0)
> > 
> > kern. seems the wrong place to me.  this is a machine dependant feature.
> 
> The idea isn't. I guess that there are more archs with an internal speaker
> than i386... isn't it? At least, sysbeep manpage says that alpha supports
> it.

I'd guess every architecture that has any kind of personal or desktop or
workstation like configuration will have internal speaker support of
some kind or another.   MIPS, Apple, SGI, Sun, HP, all have many models
with internal speakers.

> So, maybe that should be moved to machdep.*.

It's a kernel feature and I see no reason why it can't stay as kern.beep

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