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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:10:53 +0100
From: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: howto get a melodic system beep?
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Harald Dunkel wrote on 16-12-07 23:25:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more
> melodic?
> 
> I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel
> to call an external "beep daemon" playing an audio file instead
> (no kidding). But it never worked very well. Sometimes there
> was a huge delay, and some programs were not very nice to the
> system beep.
> 
> My X-mas wish would be to get an improvement here.

I think the uinput module can handle this.  There's an
example floating around somewhere.

bjd
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