[BRLTTY] No system beep after kernel upgrade

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2014/01/16 at 15:19 -0500]
> 
> >You may try as root: modprobe pcspkr
> 
> Brltty does do this on Linux, though, as long as it's running as root. So, if 
> he wasn't getting the beeps even after having started brltty, perhaps something 
> was actually wrong with that particular kernel version.

I just updated to 3.12.7-200.fc19.x86_64 from 3.12.6-200.fc19.x86_64 
with no apparent issues with the console beeper.

Sometimes the volume of the beeper is controlled by the audio mixer.  
Might be a good idea to look at the output from the amixer command.


Nicolas