no system beep and ptys broken

no system beep and ptys broken

[Michael Damien Curran]

Hi all,
I seem to be posting to this list a lot today, but this is the last one :)

I've been playing around with the later 2.5 kernels and now the 2.6.0-test
kernels also. They seem to work pretty fine, and they are starting to look
more and more stable. The only two problems I have with them is that for
some reason I no longer have a system beep ... like in bash when backspacing
to the end, receiving messages on irc ... that sort of thing.

The other problem I am having is that if I try and run screen, or login to
my box with ssh or something, it tells me that there are no more ptys left.
I am running devfs and perhaps this is a devfs issue, but its only been the
case in the 2.5 kernels after 2.5.59 I think. 
in my config, I'm choosing devfs, have it mount on boot, and not choosing
the devpts filesystem.

If any one has any ideas on these two problems I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks
Mick

-- 
---
Michael D. Curran
WWW: http://redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/~mdcurran/
Email: mick@jantrid.net
MSN: mick@jantrid.net
AOL: manchi2003
Yahoo: manchi20032000
ICQ UIN: 113763334

Re: no system beep and ptys broken

[Kirk Reiser]

In the 2.5.x and 2.6.x kernels you lose ptys and only have beeps if
you turn on pc speaker support in the input devices section.  The
beeps are flakey and don't work exactly correctly.  I believe you can
build-in ptys support but it is turned off by default.  I may be
getting that confused with something else though.  If you are going to
play around with the 2.6.x kernels though, you really should read all
the documentation which goes along with it.

As for your bns baud rate idea you may change it if you like you'll
need to change the code in ser_probe() and devprobe().  If you need to
ask how then you shouldn't be playing with it.  The defaults for synth
settings are at the bottom of each device driver and the same warning
applies.  If it looks foreign to you then you best leave it alone.  We
take indirection very seriously in our synth structures. 'grin'

This is all to say if you break it you keep all the pieces.
  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061