I'm an xchat user and I got fed up with not getting beeps on certain messages and started to wonder why. Of course I had no speaker, but then, who does these days? This daemon redirects the system speaker to the sound system (alsa) via a beep daemon. (via a minimal kernel module) 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 are supported although I've only tried 2.6. It works file for me, if you want a working /etc/initd.d/beepd I can supply. (it's not my software, but I have it working and it's great!) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Nice. I was getting fed up with not forgetting to mute the system beeps in xchat when I goto sleep... Do you think you could throw together an ebuild? That really saves me a lot of time.
Created attachment 27516 [details] As requested, this is a new/complete ebuild for beepd This is a tar/tgz of the beepd directory from my test system. /usr/local/portage/media-sound/beepd Works fine on AMD64, I see no reason why it won't work quite happily on x86. (been working for ~ a week on amd, no problems)
can you get this to work with 2.4? Also, I don't think copying the current kernel's Makefile to patch will work very well because different people will have different versions of the kernel.
Ok,There is a 2.4 source, so it fundamentally WILL work .. but who used 2.4 on Gentoo and why ?!2.6 is 20-30% faster !I will however be quite happy to maintain all 2.6.x versions , but I don't have a 2.4 Gentoo system.
well, for one, I use 2.4. 2.6 does not support all of my hardware, and it has a few deal breaker bugs. Mission critical systems will be using 2.4 for years to come. I have one server still running 2.2.x. Please try to get this to work for 2.6 then without patching the kernel Makefile. I'll worry about 2.4 later.
setting to wontfix unless you can get this going for 2.4 and 2.6. you might want to wait for the new kernel-mod.eclass to be comitted this weekend.
What's going on with this one? I'm willing to write an ebuild if needed...
You'll need to do more than write an ebuild. I think the kernel module needs to be ported is the problem
