Hello, On Wed, 02 May 2012, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
It does too with plain alsa. But it depends on mixer settings (e.g. mute the master, cause your making a call etc...)
Access to the beeper in Linux is more difficult. It needs a terminal.
beep uses /dev/console (which is why it's suid root). I think I should patch it to use /dev/tty12 or so. $ printf '\a' >/dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied $ printf '\a' >/dev/tty12 [beeps]
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.
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