Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965116AbWJXIiZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:38:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965114AbWJXIiY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:38:24 -0400 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:27323 "EHLO lug-owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965117AbWJXIiX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:38:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:38:21 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Panagiotis Issaris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PC speaker listed as input device Message-ID: <20061024083821.GY26271@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Panagiotis Issaris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1hAU+gb7eAuiw2fm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1764 Lines: 56 --1hAU+gb7eAuiw2fm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-10-23 20:32:55 +0200, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > While trying to get my Hauppauge's remote control working, I noticed that= my > PC speaker is getting recognized as an input device. This seems very weird > to me, is there some logic behind this? >=20 > takis@aether:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices > I: Bus=3D0010 Vendor=3D001f Product=3D0001 Version=3D0100 > N: Name=3D"PC Speaker" > P: Phys=3Disa0061/input0 > S: Sysfs=3D/class/input/input0 > H: Handlers=3Dkbd event0 > B: EV=3D40001 > B: SND=3D6 > ... The Input subsystem also covers simple beeps, because real keyboards beep. So it was only straight-forward to also put the PC speaker into the Input subsystem to be able to emulate real keyboard's beeps as good as possible :) MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Lauf nicht vor Deinem Gl=C3=BCck dav= on: the second : Es k=C3=B6nnte hinter Dir stehe= n! --1hAU+gb7eAuiw2fm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFPdD9Hb1edYOZ4bsRAmUXAJ0c6u+HhYjIj7n3pc63RWrjWa2qtgCfajFG fQlS1Yx/8hmYGf6mJzZ1Us8= =LhvD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1hAU+gb7eAuiw2fm-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/