Re: [patch 1/1] pc-speaker: add SND_SILENT

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 13:50:10 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:43:35PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>
> > I would think the ideal situation would be to make every ALSA
> > device capable of acting as the console bell (defaulting to muted,
> > like every other ALSA mixer control). Then only pcspkr would be the
> > odd case (though maybe a common one).
> >
> > I dunno if there's a reasonably easy way to do that (without
> > changing every ALSA driver) though.
>
> I think that should be done using a userspace input device if possible.

It certainly is. That way configuring the exact sound it makes would
also possible. The latency might be a problem, though.

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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