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

[David Chmelik]

On 04/07/2026 01:34, B. Watson wrote:
> "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?
The beep-1.4.12-x86_64-2_SBo 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.

# /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local

/sbin/modprobe pcspkr# PC speaker
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