Bug 274502 - RELNOTES: document kern.vt.enable_bell=0 by default
Summary: RELNOTES: document kern.vt.enable_bell=0 by default
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: conf (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Mike Karels
URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-sr...
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Blocks: 14.0r
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Reported: 2023-10-15 18:37 UTC by Jan Beich
Modified: 2023-11-24 16:09 UTC (History)
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Description Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 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 freebsd_triage 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 freebsd_triage 2023-10-23 15:43:45 UTC 
Included in the release notes now: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/cea787c18f647edc2a82310afab18cabcb79bdc3