-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2012-05-01 at 15:24 +0200, David Haller wrote:
BTW: I generally use the beeper quite a lot. A low long beep[1] notifies me of long running background jobs being done (e.g. video
I use spoken messages for that :-)
encoding), a long normal beep[2][3] of finished downloads, and high beeps (see above) of "alarms" ;) Those beeps get through no matter how loud/muted pcm or whatever is, no matter what other sound stuff is doing. Which is the main reason for me using them as alarms etc.
Ah, I see. Well, with pulse sounds mix.
-dnh, remembering game _music_ played on that beeper ;)
Oh, yes, even voices. The game "the abady" had voices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Abad%C3%ADa_del_Crimen (search for "Ave Maria") Access to the beeper in Linux is more difficult. It needs a terminal. I remember I wrote a routine in turbopascal that played music in background using the timer interrupt, at the same time the program was running its busines.
[1] beep -f 260 -l 800 [2] beep -l 600 [3] default beep from beep is eq. to 'beep -l 200 -f 440', default beep (c.f. printf '\a' >/dev/tty12) seems to be approx. 'beep -l 100 -f 751'.
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