[BRLTTY] No system beep after kernel upgrade

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Mon Jan 20 11:24:53 EST 2014


[Nicolas]
> 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.
> 
[...]

> 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.

Yes. Sorry that I forgot to mention that the problem occures on a
laptop. The amixer command gives errors, running it as root. I don't
have the machine here, so can't tell any more details right now.
Anyway, something changed after a kernel update.

Thanks and regards,
Lars


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