Jingle Bells

collinsl

@kronso:

It's a firewall. It's not a jingle bell machine.

haha hey it can be both. ;D

For the OP, probably find more help searching on beep, shell scripting, and related things. I don't have an answer, but it's a funny idea and a funnier response. :D

If you happen to get it working you should post it :)

I have the basic script from beep.sh, the startup jingle, I just can't get the pauses right, as jingle bells has pauses between some of the notes.

Thanks for the help

collinsl

@jimp:

http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000287

:-)

Thanks for the response. I will look into this topic

collinsl

In a similar vein, if the PC has a sound card and inbuilt speaker, could it be made to play a music file?

jimp

@collinsl:

In a similar vein, if the PC has a sound card and inbuilt speaker, could it be made to play a music file?

It could, but we do not include sound drivers or kernel modules for sound.

collinsl

@jimp:

@collinsl:

In a similar vein, if the PC has a sound card and inbuilt speaker, could it be made to play a music file?

It could, but we do not include sound drivers or kernel modules for sound.

Right, thanks.

How hard would it be to add said modules/drivers?

jimp

You'd just need to copy the sound modules over from a stock freebsd install and load them. If you know your way around FreeBSD, it wouldn't be terribly hard. If you don't, it might be a little difficult to get it all straight.

collinsl

@jimp:

You'd just need to copy the sound modules over from a stock freebsd install and load them. If you know your way around FreeBSD, it wouldn't be terribly hard. If you don't, it might be a little difficult to get it all straight.

Right, thanks.

mhab12

For the pauses in Jingle Bells, would it be possible to just insert a note (or notes) with a frequency outside the range of the PC beep speaker, i.e. 1 or 999999?

collinsl

@mhab12:

For the pauses in Jingle Bells, would it be possible to just insert a note (or notes) with a frequency outside the range of the PC beep speaker, i.e. 1 or 999999?

I will try that, thanks.

tommyboy180

Oh and please share source when you got it! This sounds really fun!

collinsl

@tommyboy180:

Oh and please share source when you got it! This sounds really fun!

Will do.

stephenw10

This is awsome! ;D
In my opinion (as someone living in a supposedly Christian country!) it should be part of pfsense. If you reboot your box on Christmas day it should play jinglebells. :D
That opens up the possibility of other date related start up themes…....

Steve