Sound after boot process has finiched

[DVDke]

Hey there,


Is it possible in gentoo to make a sound (a few beeps or so) through the internal speaker of the pc when the bootproces is finiched?


Thx ad advance!

PS: This is my first post on this forum, all my problems I could resolve thx to this forum. I must say that the gentoo community is the most helpfull community i have ever seen. Keep up the good work!!

[kalisphoenix]

If you want to get fancier than just a beep, there's festival and speechd, which do synthesized speech. Mine currently says "When you hear voices in your head, you're insane." Of course, it does run not only at boot but every once in a while (when Kmail checks for new mail), and thus is good for freaking out my girlfriend, etc. It's also very effective on potheads.

If not, well, I stole a tiny C++ program for you, because I didn't know either PM me with your email and I'll send it, or just the source if you're paranoid It compiles with warnings, but it still works.

It's fairly quiet, at least on my box.

[ronmon]

Or just make the last line of /etc/conf.d/local.start something like:

[garn]

if you want the internal beep because you don't keep your speakers hooked up or don't have a sound card or something then do:

echo -ne "\a" > /dev/console

[DVDke]