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From: tsf@theory.cs.cmu.edu (Timothy Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Audible Bell
Message-ID: <1022@theory.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 20:51:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 20:51:24 1987
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In article <12287439268.16.HODGES@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA> HODGES@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA (Richard Hodges) writes:
>Why doesn't the Audible bell work in X.V10R4 on Sun 3/50, running
>Sun OS 3.0 or 3.2?

Here's what the comments from libsun/util.c say.  I did it on my Sun 3/160
and it worked.  I think that some operation similar to this was
mandated by the installation guide, but I can't get my hands on that
right now.

When I did this, after I created the bell I had to give a chmod
command when I was root to make the bell device writable by all.

 * Need to make the /dev/bell device with
 * the same major device number as tty[ab] but with a new minor number.
 *
 *  # /etc/mknod /dev/bell c 12 2
 *
 *  crw-rw-rw-  1 root      12,   0 Jan  6 18:18 /dev/ttya
 *  crw-rw-rw-  1 root      12,   1 Feb 26  1985 /dev/ttyb
 *  crw-rw-rw-  1 root      12,   2 Jan 14 08:45 /dev/bell
 *
 */