[Slackbuilds-users] misc/beep work for anyone?

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2026, 8:30 AM Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>
wrote:

> >> The Slackbuilds one seems to be out of date.  A current one is located
> at
> >> https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep
> >
> >I actually tried that before I tried the old version on SBo. The plan
> >was to update the build... neither version works.
> >
> >> Reading the arch wiki for pc speakers (there's a section on "beep"
> >> specifically too) made it sound just obnoxious enough not to try though
> >> (pcspkr kernel module, udev, limitations)
> >
> >The udev stuff is only to allow non-root users to use beep. I ran my
> >tests as root.
> >
> >Just now tried the pcspkr module (it wasn't loaded before, it is now)
> >but it didn't change anything.
>

Looks like it might require specific hardware.

https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/issues/13

last update was me in 2013, so it's time to remove it from SBo
>

That is the original version. The forked version mentioned by Alexander had
a release in 2022 and commits last year.

Jeremy

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