Bug 274502

Summary:	RELNOTES: document kern.vt.enable_bell=0 by default
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Jan Beich <jbeich>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	Mike Karels <karels>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	grahamperrin, karels, manu, markj
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
URL:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	271607

Description Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2023-10-15 18:37:54 UTC

After base 225639e7db68 ascii(7) BEL is no longer audible in vt(4) unlike syscons(4). Affects at least termios(4) IMAXBEL, termcap(5) "bl" (Ctrl+G), tcsh(1) completion (no match), ping(8) -a/-A and X11 bell (configured via "xset b", implemented in Xorg via KDMKTONE). Not to be confused with speaker(4) or beep(1).

One can restore the old behavior:

# sysctl kern.vt.enable_bell=1
$ kbdcontrol -b normal

Comment 1 Mike Karels freebsd_committer

2023-10-15 19:08:14 UTC

Thanks.  I now have this documented in my copy of the 14.0 release notes (relnotes.adoc), will add it to my current review on the next update.

Comment 2 Graham Perrin 2023-10-16 04:11:23 UTC

^Triage correction (sorry): after seeing bug 273149, I realised the originally intended context for this bug 274502: 

* RELNOTES in base.

Comment 3 Graham Perrin 2023-10-16 04:14:14 UTC

Doubly sorry, not standards (that was a slip on a scroll wheel in the Component menu whilst intending to scroll up and down the page). Revert to originally set: conf.

Comment 4 Mark Johnston freebsd_committer

2023-10-23 15:43:45 UTC

Included in the release notes now: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/cea787c18f647edc2a82310afab18cabcb79bdc3