Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up > to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I > needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have > a question on making a sound with the <^G>. I am trying to insert the > bell character in the file debian.txt file found on the bootdists. I am > using emacs so at the bottom of the file i do C-q C-g and it is inserts a > ^G where i want it. If i cat or do a more on the file i here the bell but > when i use the disk i see a diamond just before the boot: prompt. can > anyone help me. if sending you the file helps let me know. thanking you > in advance,
syslinux is in charge when you boot the disk, so no linux kernel is running who could interpret this ascii code (not to mention a sound driver). You have to check syslinux whether it is possible to do a bell at the prompt (and how to do it). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 «Computers are like air conditioners -- they stop working properly if i you open WINDOWS»