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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup