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

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Sun Apr 5 23:05:50 UTC 2026


[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2026/04/05 at 20:41 +0200]

>`ps aux |grep brltty` gives
>
>root        1862  0.9  0.0 544584  7252 ?        Ssl  09:29   6:36 /usr/bin/brltty

How is brltty being started?

>> Is there an error in your brltty log that says something like "can't open beeper device"?
>
>`journalctl  -b0 |grep beeper` gives no output.

If you ls -l /proc/pid/fd where pid is that of brltty, do yo see a file descriptor opened to /dev/tty0?

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