[BRLTTY] Hints for "modern" audio setup?

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Sat Oct 17 17:18:08 EDT 2015


On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Lars Bjørndal wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 04:58:25PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > It might be a good idea for brltty to be run under a special user for 
> > itself.  Then that user could be added to the pulseaudio group as well 
> > as the tty group to access the vcs devices.
> 
> Yes, but you probably want the console beep as well as audio output
> from BRLTTY.

Agreed, but unless BRLTTY can intercept the console beep event, I don't 
think there's anything it can do about it.  A quick Google search gave 
me this:

http://beep-module.sourceforge.net/

In any case, it would still be a good idea not to run BRLTTY as root 
regardless.


Nicolas


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