• console bell via /dev/audio?

    From Winston@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 25 19:22:40 2023
    One change in FreeBSD 14.0 is that the motherboard console bell is
    disabled by default. I found that this change also disabled XBell,
    so X11 applications including xterm, Emacs, and even xkbbell -f no
    longer beeped.

    Fortunately, the release notes said how to turn it back on
    ("sysctl kern.vt.enable_bell=1" and "kbdcontrol -b normal")
    and that worked, including for the X11 applications.

    The release notes also say:

    The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It can be set with
    kbdcontrol(1) again. There is integration with devd(8) for
    people wishing to use their sound cards for the beep.
    [links: ba48d52ca6c8 4ac3d08a9693 2533eca1c2b9]

    I'm perfectly willing to have a sound card sound instead of the
    motherboard speaker beep, but apparently I'm missing something.

    Do I need to set up something somewhere to recieve the beep request and
    write to /dev/audio? devd is running, and there's a /dev/audio that
    works.

    TIA,
    -WBE

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