Announcing a console speaker driver for 80x86 boxen...

[Eric S. Raymond]

For fun and to keep my kernel-hacking hand in, I recently wrote a
character device driver for the console speaker on PC-compatible machines
running UNIX.

The speaker driver permits both absolute time & frequency control (via
ioctls) and control via a `play language' essentially identical to the
PLAY statement feature in IBM BASIC 2.0.

The thing is packaged as an installable device driver kit for SVr3.2;
conversion to XENIX or earlier SV versions shouldn't be hard if you're
so minded. Full documentation and a test set is included.

This driver may be used to put a sound option in the next nethack realease.

Watch for it on a comp.sources.unix near you...
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      Eric S. Raymond = eric at snark.uu.net    (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)