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

[Lars Bjørndal]

Ok. I'v not entered the preferences menu for a long time. Anyway, it turned out that alert tunes was set to no. Setting them to yes, solved the problem. I have had grandchildren visiting, and they may have pressed keys on the display and/or on the keyboard that have changed the setting. I'm sorry for taking up your time.

Lars

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 09:49:40AM +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> [Dave]
> 
> > [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?
> 
> I'm using the prebuilt BRLTTY package from Fedora: brltty-6.8-4.fc43.x86_64, in which you have the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/brltty.service. Systemd is starting BRLTTY. The file looks like:
> 
> ```
> [Unit]
> Description=Braille display driver for Linux/Unix
> Before=getty.target display-manager.service
> 
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/brltty
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=default.target emergency.target rescue.target
> ```
> 
> Let me add that when BRLTTY on initrd starts, I hear the alerts.
> 
> > >> 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?
> 
> Yes,
> l-wx------ 1 root root 64 april  6 09:45 10 -> /dev/tty0
> and
> l-wx------ 1 root root 64 april  6 09:45 23 -> /dev/tty0
> 
> Lars
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