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

Aura Kelloniemi kaura.dev at sange.fi
Mon Apr 6 12:44:42 UTC 2026


Hi,

On 2026-04-04 at 17:47 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> 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. 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:

But shouldn't this problem have been resolved by BRLTTY creating tty0 node in
its private mount? If I understand correctly, this is exactly the same kind of
permissions issue that we had recently. Then BRLTTY was not able to read
virtual consoles because of device node permission changes. Even the device
node is exactly the same.

-- 
Aura


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