[CentOS] Re: how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

[Rudi Ahlers]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-1-2008 8:26 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>> on 2-29-2008 10:55 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
>>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>>> on 2-29-2008 2:54 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime / sound 
>>>>>> when a machine is fully booted.
>>>>>> How / where can I setup, activate, or create such a boot up sound?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Do you want something using the system speaker, or the soundcard?
>>>>> If through system speaker, there is a utility called "beep" 
>>>>> (http://www.johnath.com/beep/)
>>>>> You can put it at the end of rc.sysinit (or just call it last in 
>>>>> whatever way you see fit) and not only beep, but play tunes. Only 
>>>>> limited by your imagination.
>>>>>
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>>>> Awesome, thanx :) Google didn't turn up anything usable. And yes, I 
>>>> want to use the system speaker, since it will be on servers, which 
>>>> generally don't have monitors, nor external speakers on the soundcard.
>>>>
>>> Here is the startup sound from ipcop for an example.
>>>
>>> # Send nice startup beep now
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 500
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 1000
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 2000
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 3000
>>>
>>> And on shutdown it does it reversed.
>>>
>>> # Send nice shutdown beep now
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 3000
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 2000
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 1000
>>> /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 500
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>   
>> This script works so well, thank you :)
>>
> I always try to please!  ;-)
>
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Interestingly enough, it doesn't work on the Xen kernel. I suppose it 
has todo with the drivers not being installed on Xen?

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