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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00810000000000000000">7.1 Programming the internal speaker</A></H1>
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Believe it or not, your PC speaker is part of the Linux console and
thus a character device. Therefore, ioctl() requests exist to manipulate
it. For the internal speaker the following 2 requests exist:
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<OL><LI> KDMKTONE
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Generates a beep for a specified time using the kernel timer.
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Example: <TT>ioctl (fd, KDMKTONE,(long) argument)</TT>.<LI> KIOCSOUND
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Generates an endless beep or stops a currently sounding beep.
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Example: <TT>ioctl(fd,KIOCSOUND,(int) tone)</TT>.
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The <TT>argument</TT> consists of the <TT>tone</TT> value in the low word and
the duration in the high word. The <TT>tone</TT> value is not the
frequency. The PC mainboard timer 8254 is clocked at 1.19 MHz and so
it's 1190000/frequency. The duration is measured in timer ticks. Both
ioctl calls return immediately so you can this way produce beeps
without blocking the program.<BR>
KDMKTONE should be used for warning signals because you don't have
to worry about stopping the tone.<BR>
KIOCSOUND can be used to play melodies as demonstrated in the example
program splay <I>(please send more .sng files to me).</I> To stop the
beep you have to use the <TT>tone</TT> value 0.
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