A tune at startup/shutdown...?

Can I make my AA1 play a tune at startup/shutdown a la the "other operating system"...?

Anyone know?

Thanks,
Rowantree

 

Aw, c'mawwwnnn, someone must know how to make it play a tune on startup and shutdown...? :roll:

Cheers,
Rowantree

 

If you've got a suitable sound file, and mplayer installed, you could put something like '/usr/bin/mplayer whatever.wav' at the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local - but that will mean the startup waits until the sound has been played.

I'm not keen enough on the idea myself to try it out

 

OK, cheers.

 

Well you could add

/usr/bin/mplayer whatever.wav &

and then it would play in the background.

Probably the `right' way to do this is to create scripts called something like S90playsound and K90playsound to call mplayer with the start and stop sounds respectively. But you might have to fiddle about with the numbers because you don't want to be trying to play a sound while the OS is trying to unload the audio drivers.

Personally, one of the reasons for preferring Linux is that it _doesn't_ indulgence in this sort of ear-candy

 

Well, you know, the fast boot is fab but I do miss my wee tune after listening to it for 10 years+ on various "other operating systems".

Thanks for the suggestions guys (though not sure am quite brave enough to try just yet...)

Cheers,
Rowantree