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

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2026, Alexander Grotewohl 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 The Slackbuilds one seems to be out of date.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.