[BRLTTY] Alert tunes not working via beeper on newer OS releases.

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Sun Apr 5 07:39:12 UTC 2026


Hi, Dave!

You wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed that alert tunes have stopped working on newer OS releases when the tune device is set to beeper.

Yes, right.

> This is due to increased permission restrictions on /dev/tty0. The development code now contains a new udev rules file to resolve this. To give it a try, copy the file brltty/Autostart/Udev/beeper.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/90-brltty-beeper.rules and then reload your udev rules with this command:
> 
>    udevadm control --reload

I'm running Fedora 43, with BRLTTY verison 6.8. Your fix doesn't solve the problem here. Just to be sure, I did reboot also. From the log, I see some lines of `Unexpected Packet: 79 38 04 52 0F 10 30 16`.

Thanks,
Lars


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