Re: [GnomeMeeting-list]Idea: Ringing sound via internal PC speaker

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

I misunderstood the question, sorry...

I know that Storm Linux had a kernel patch for that, but I don't
remember which kernel it was...(2.2.x ?) Anyway, it is a good idea.


le ven 26-10-2001 à 13:33, Lawrence Manning a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Here's the problem: to make some noise when there is an incoming call, the
> standard thing is to play sound through the soundcard.  The problem is
> that unless people have two soundcards, the sound will probably be played
> through a set of headphones.  So therefore the sound will never be heard
> since the guy at the machine wont sit there with his headphones on all
> day.  So my idea is to play a ring sound through the internal speaker.  I
> have already played with this using a program called console_beep-0.1 (URL
> unknown) at it works well.  It plays the sound via /dev/console, so only
> the loged in user can make the sound, but this is no problem.
> 
> How hard would it be to either: get gnomemeeting to talk to /dev/sound
> direct - or, get gnomemeeting to run a command when a call comes in?  I do
> not want to have to rely on the gnome libs for this, sicne I dont run
> gnome :)
> 
> Comments? :)
> 
> Lawrence Manning
> 
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