Re: pc speaker cant be accessed with no video card in computer

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> Rather than porting it to Linux I chose a simple option of copying
> the ioctl PC speaker code into a skeleton misc character device
> driver. As a result I can issue ioctl "beep" calls against my
> /dev/pcspeaker (character device with major number 10, minor number
> 240). E.g., replacing "/dev/console" with "/dev/pcspeaker" in
> PCMCIA cardmgr.c will revive its sound effects.

Ug. I have thought about this problem as well. I plan to make it a
/dev/input driver. Especially since I plan to migrate the VT code over
to input api. This will allow use to the speaker with or without the
VT tty system.

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