Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:13:28 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac2 |
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>> >2.6.9-ac2 >> >o Flash lights on panic as in 2.4 (Andi Kleen) >> >> It would be cool to have the pc speaker doing a toneladder when the Kernel
s/toneladder/pcspkr beep scale/;
>> oopses. That is (was) especially helpful when in X when the lights did not >> flash. Might as well add to the accessibility of the kernel. > >Sometimes it's possible to continue normally after an Oops. For months,
And sometimes, it just locks up and you wait forever, thinking that X might just block again because someone's hogging.
>even years. This could get annoying in a data center real quick.
Well this of course should stay as a compile-time (better yet: sysctl) option that is set to 'n' by default. Home users who wish to use it may enable it.
http://linux01.org:2222/f/hxtools/kernel/24-oops_snd.diff I once wrote this, but did not port it to 2.6 since accessing the speaker changed.
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