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

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Sun Apr 5 18:19:36 UTC 2026


[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2026/04/05 at 20:01 +0200]

>`ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/90-brltty-beeper.rules`
>
>`-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1720 april  5 09:14 /etc/udev/rules.d/90-brltty-beeper.rules`

Looks good.

>`getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
># file: dev/tty0
># owner: root
># group: tty
>user::rw-
>user:brltty:rw-
>group::---
>mask::rw-
>other::---`

Also looks good. Which user is your brltty process running as. The rule grants access to the brltty user, and root should, of course, be okay.

Is there an error in your brltty log that says something like "can't open beeper device"?

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