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

[Alexander Grotewohl]

The Slackbuilds one seems to be out of date.  A current one is located at https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep

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)



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


"beep" is supposed to make the PC speaker beep... but I can't make
it work on either of the boxes I tested it on. When run as root, it
doesn't give any error, and strace shows it doing iotcl() calls on
/dev/tty0.

I'm trying to see if this works *at all* for *anyone*. The code is
25 or more years old, so it may just be that it's not compatible with
modern kernels...

Any volunteers want to try it?
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