Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:38:21 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: PC speaker listed as input device |
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On Mon, 2006-10-23 20:32:55 +0200, Panagiotis Issaris <panagiotis@gmail.com> wrote: > While trying to get my Hauppauge's remote control working, I noticed that my > PC speaker is getting recognized as an input device. This seems very weird > to me, is there some logic behind this? > > takis@aether:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices > I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100 > N: Name="PC Speaker" > P: Phys=isa0061/input0 > S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0 > H: Handlers=kbd event0 > B: EV=40001 > B: SND=6 > ...
The Input subsystem also covers simple beeps, because real keyboards beep. So it was only straight-forward to also put the PC speaker into the Input subsystem to be able to emulate real keyboard's beeps as good as possible :)
MfG, JBG
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