[BRLTTY] brltty attempts to use beeper even when configured with --disable-beeper-support

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Adrian P. van Bloois (2011/04/23 10:44 +0200):
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:30:22AM +0200, S?bastien Hinderer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In response to Dave's message asking all of us to test the last
> > development release, I notice the following behaviour:
> > although brltty is configured with --disable-beeper-support,
> > getDefaultTuneDevice is called, which calls canBeep which in turn calls
> > getConsole, the result being permission error messages in the logs since
> > the user running brltty is not allowed to open the console in write mode.
> > Is this an intended behaviour or a bug ?
> I don't know, but I start brltty as root normally, e.g. at boot.
> In that case you will not have this problem.

Sure, but it is not the only possible use of brltty.
Sébastien.