Re: turning off the beep

[YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dfly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:24:25PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:02:32AM -0500, Erik V. Smith wrote:
> > With 1.4.0 Release, "kbdcontrol -b quiet.off" should turn off the 
> > keyboard beep, however it is not being disabled. Furthermore, 
> > "kbdcontrol -b visual" does not cause the screen to flash at the 
> > appropriate time.
> 
> I don't see a difference between `-b off' and `-b quiet.off', as the
> former has always worked for me to turn off the beep.  The patch below
> should make `-b quiet.off' a synonym to `-b off'.  Do you like it?
> As for `-b visual', it works as it is; the screen flashes, for instance,
> when I hit backspace at the beginning of line, or when I run printf '\007' .

And this one should also fix `-b quiet.visual' which drhodus@ mentioned
earlier on kernel@ with a subject "BEEPING":
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2005-08/msg00050.html

Index: kbdcontrol.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/source/dragonfly/cvs/src/usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdcontrol.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 kbdcontrol.c
--- kbdcontrol.c	30 Oct 2005 23:00:57 -0000	1.5
+++ kbdcontrol.c	9 Jan 2006 08:34:39 -0000
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@
 {
 	int bell, duration, pitch;
 
-	bell = 0;
+	bell = duration = pitch = 0;
 	if (!strncmp(opt, "quiet.", 6)) {
 		bell = 2;
 		opt += 6;
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
 	else if (!strcmp(opt, "normal"))
 		duration = 5, pitch = 800;
 	else if (!strcmp(opt, "off"))
-		duration = 0, pitch = 0;
+		bell = 0;
 	else {
 		char		*v1;