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

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Sun Apr 5 18:41:00 UTC 2026


[Dave]

> [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.

`ps -U root |grep brltty`

gives:

   1862 ?        00:06:35 brltty

`ps aux |grep brltty` gives

root        1862  0.9  0.0 544584  7252 ?        Ssl  09:29   6:36 /usr/bin/brltty
root        5038  0.0  0.0 112832  2524 tty1     S+   20:38   0:00 grep --color=auto brltty

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

`journalctl  -b0 |grep beeper` gives no output.

Lars


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