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Re: [rtl] 8254 counter 2 ??

Stuart Hughes (sehughes@zentropix.com) wrote:
> NOTE: I always use periodic mode on 486's as otherwise anything that you
> do on the machine that could cause a 'beep' on the speaker (e.g
> backspace at the command prompt) will cause the machine to hang, this is
> a known and documented limitation.

RTL: 486, oneshot works reliably. The requests to produce beeps are ignored
by the kernel. Oneshot mode may be too slow on 486s however.

Michael.
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