playing a tune at startup

[Keith Wessel]

Thank you, Sir! Got it, installed the beep utility, and now I have a cavalry charge on boot-up!


GRUB_INIT_TUNE="800 523 2 698 2 880 2 1046 1 1 3 880 2 1046 4"

What a nifty utility!

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 7:19 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: playing a tune at startup

Sorry, I must have moved it. I don't remember doing that. Anyway:

wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/grub-init-tune


On 04/03/2015 03:48 PM, Keith Wessel wrote:
> John,
>
> I'm finally on grub2 and was eager to dive in and make myself a catchy
> little tune! Sadly, your script gives me a 404. Where did it go???
>
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of John
> G. Heim
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:38 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: playing a tune at startup
>
> All,
>
> I've written what i think is a handy little utility for testing and
> experimenting with grub init tunes.  To use it, you can do one of three
> things:
> 1. Just run the script. In this case, it will read /etc/default/grub and
> play the current GRUB_INIT_TUNE.
> 2.Set the GRUB_INIT_TUNE environmental variable to a tune. In this case,
> it will play your tune. This allows you to try out different tunes.
> 3. Use one of the tunes I've created. Do this by editing the script and
> uncommenting the line for the tune you want to try. There are several
> tunes listed at the top of the script.
>
> The script plays the GRUB_INIT_TUNE  and then echos it to the console.
> To save a tune, just redirect the output to your grub default file,:
>
> # grub-init-tune >> /etc/default/grub
> # update-grub
>
> To download the script, point a browser here:
> http://www.iavit.org/~john/grub-init-tune
>
>
> Or:
> #  wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/grub-init-tune
> # chmod 07555 grub-init-tune
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