<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2026, 8:30 AM Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <<a href="mailto:willysr@slackbuilds.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">willysr@slackbuilds.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>> The Slackbuilds one seems to be out of date. A current one is located at<br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep</a><br>
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>I actually tried that before I tried the old version on SBo. The plan<br>
>was to update the build... neither version works.<br>
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>> Reading the arch wiki for pc speakers (there's a section on "beep"<br>
>> specifically too) made it sound just obnoxious enough not to try though<br>
>> (pcspkr kernel module, udev, limitations)<br>
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>The udev stuff is only to allow non-root users to use beep. I ran my<br>
>tests as root.<br>
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>Just now tried the pcspkr module (it wasn't loaded before, it is now)<br>
>but it didn't change anything.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Looks like it might require specific hardware. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/issues/13" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/issues/13</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
last update was me in 2013, so it's time to remove it from SBo<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is the original version. The forked version mentioned by Alexander had a release in 2022 and commits last year. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jeremy</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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