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From: Hans-Christian Armingeon <linux.johnny@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: pc speaker cant be accessed with no video card in computer
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:08:33 +0100
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Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2001 02:30 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> Hi!
>
> > I guess it is not easy to produce a series of sounds without
> > waiting each note to finish.  There is an 8 year old PC speaker
> > driver for BSD kernel that performs the BASIC PLAY lines in kernel.
> >
> > Rather than porting it to Linux I chose a simple option of copying
> > the ioctl PC speaker code into a skeleton misc character device
> > driver.  As a result I can issue ioctl "beep" calls against my
> > /dev/pcspeaker (character device with major number 10, minor number
> > 240).  E.g., replacing "/dev/console" with "/dev/pcspeaker" in
> > PCMCIA cardmgr.c will revive its sound effects.
>
> Snip... There's driver enabling you to play mp3-s on pc speaker (etc, it
> does full /dev/dsp).... Separate task but maybe you wanted to know...
Does anybody know, where this driver is? (Homepage)

Thanks in advance,

Johnny
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