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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/07/2026 01:34, B. Watson wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:66bfe916-1467-5a32-5b52-e23f1f4cc611@slackware.uk">
"beep" is supposed to make the PC speaker beep... but I can't make
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it work on either of the boxes I tested it on. When run as root,
it
<br>
doesn't give any error, and strace shows it doing iotcl() calls on
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/dev/tty0.
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I'm trying to see if this works *at all* for *anyone*. The code is
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25 or more years old, so it may just be that it's not compatible
with
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modern kernels...
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Any volunteers want to try it?</blockquote>
The <span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">beep-1.4.12-x86_64-2_SBo</span> </span>works
for me on Slackware64-current with Linux kernel 7.0.14. It works on
my current PC and worked on the computer I gave you as long as I did
the following.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">#
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local</span><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
</span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
</span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">/sbin/modprobe
pcspkr</span><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"># PC speaker</span><br>
</span><br>
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