Re: 5.3 Startup with a beep

Carsten Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Mark,

I have filed a PR as seen below (how exciting, my first pr ;)...

Thanks for the beep boot0 patch (aka beep-O-patch? hehe..). 
Everything went well and 'tis now quiet again

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|>Category:       misc
|>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
|>Synopsis:       Bootup "beep" in 5.3 should be disabled by default
|>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 06 15:30:17 GMT 2004

Carsten


Am Wed Dec 01, 2004 at 04:0823PM -0800 schrieb Mark Diekhans:
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> 
> Carsten Zimmermann <[email protected]> writes:
> > I upgraded lately to a clean iso installed 5.3-R. From then, my laptop 
> > always gives an eeky "beeeeeeep" when the boot loader prompts. It was 
> > all silent with 5.2.1 and I'd like it to be that way again ;)
> 
> I found this really annoying and dug into the code and patch it
> on my system.  The enclose patch gets rid of this.  To install it,
> I used the following commands:
> 
>   cd /usr/src
>   patch <boot0.nobell.patch
>   cd sys/boot/i386/boot0
>   bsdmake
>   cp -f boot0 /boot/boot0
>   boot0cfg -v -B -f /boot/boot0.bak -s 2 -o packet ad0
> 
> Be sure to check the arguments to boot0cfg match your system, do
> a backup and have a fixit disk handy in case this breaks
> anything.
> 
> If you can file a pr on this it would be great..
> 
> mark
> 

> --- sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.ORIG	Thu Nov 18 08:20:08 2004
> +++ sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S	Thu Nov 18 08:23:04 2004
> @@ -204,7 +204,9 @@
>   * Start of input loop.  Beep and take note of time
>   */
>  main.10:	movb $ASCII_BEL,%al		# Signal
> +#if 0 /* MED:    bell is annoying */
>  		callw putchr			#  beep!
> +#endif
>  		xorb %ah,%ah			# BIOS: Get
>  		int $0x1a			#  system time
>  		movw %dx,%di			# Ticks when

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