Dear managers:
I am now more or less down to nitty-gritties with my new ALPHA, having
resolved a serial port driver bug and a half-deaf ethernet card. I now
move on to that AWFUL "bell" one gets on the system. Even with the
mmeserver (multimedia server) shut down, there is still a perceptible
delay and a click on the speaker before a bell is actually processed. For
that matter the first 100 ms or so of the beep is definitely
suppressed/filtered in a strange way (which might be associated with the
click)...
What it sounds like is that the click is a short pulse that saturates the
internal speaker which does not recover until some 100-200 ms later.
So: is this a bug in the device driver? or is it just cheap hardware?...I
understand the keyboard shipped with the new AlphaStations is a standard
PC keyboard...does this mean that it has a bell in it? (I seem to recall
there is one in the old PC keyboard...I could be wrong...)...can one
switch the console bell over to the keyboard instead?
thanks for your support...
Charlie Jui
Dept. of Physics
U. of Utah
Received on Sun Feb 12 1995 - 22:50:15 NZDT