Bug 6037
| Summary: | inconsistency between kbdcontrol(1) and syscons device driver. | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | kh <kh> | ||||||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||||||
| Version: | 2.1.5-RELEASE | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||||||
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State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed in syscons.c 1.268 and kbdcontrol.c 1.15. |
Current kbdcontrol(1) manual has not enough information to set bel duration and pitch. Here is a possible patch to /usr/shar/ man/man1/kbdcontrol.1. *** ORGkbdcontrol.1 Tue Mar 17 08:37:25 1998 --- /usr/shar/man/man1/kbdcontrol.1 Tue Mar 17 08:47:45 1998 *************** *** 37,43 **** The following command line options are supported: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar belltype ! Set the bell duration and pitch values. If a .Ar belltype argument is specified, it may be one of --- 37,43 ---- The following command line options are supported: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar belltype ! Set the bell duration in 1/10 seconds and pitch in 838.1 nanoseconds. If a .Ar belltype argument is specified, it may be one of Fix: But there is inconsistency between kbdcontrol(1) and syscons device drive as for their default value. bell duration ----------------------------------------------- /sys/i386/isa/syscons.c 50 miliseconds /usr/src/usr.sbin/kbdcontrol.c 100 miliseconds Perhaps more reasonable way is changing unit of pitch and duration to in hertz (pitch) and miliseconds (duration) as follow.