Nothing. Both are good finer-grained alternatives, but only control the
basic bell tones (ascii 7 sent to stdout, etc...). My patch is a little more
forceful, since someone could still (regardless of xset and setterm's
actions) use ioctl() calls to /dev/console to ligitimately make sound. One
of this patch's aims to be a software equivalent of removing the internal
speaker from the machine altogether...which results in a slightly smaller
kernel, to boot. :)
Also, at bootup, if I have a pcmcia card in my machine, the card detecting
code likes to beep a few times. Which is fine if you like that sort of
thing, but this patch prevents squeaking at bootup time before your init
scripts can issue a setterm command.
That's my thinking on the matter. Again, I hope these patches can be of use
to someone.
--ryan.
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