Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards
>><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer
>>>
>>> Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a
>>> typeblock-hitting-platen sound through that speaker? It was connected
>>> to a timer-counter output pin not a D/A converter (unless you count
>>> timer/counter output pin as a 1-bit D/A converter).
>>
>> I think it just made the generic "beep" (or a beep short enough and
>> low enough in tone to sound similar to a click)
>
> I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the
> motherboard, and "xset c" still does nothing.
>
>> not playing a custom sound file.
>
> Which is what the OP asked for.

Hey, it wasn't my idea. Talk to Volker for more details about the
xset-as-typewriter-sound idea. :) I didn't reply to the OP. I only
replied about xset (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in
agreement that it just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call
it).