Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

[RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net>]

On 08/02/2017 10:38 AM, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my 
> > laptop.
> > The installation is full success without any problem except a little 
> > one -
> > 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash 
> > scripts. I had
> > Jessie installed on the same laptop before and it worked just fine.
> >
> > I checked everything I possibly could: pcspkr module loaded, alsa does 
> > not have
> > any muted channels, tried to use it as a user and as a root. No clue 
> > why it does
> > not work any longer in Strech.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Possibly the following excerpt from https://github.com/johnath/beep/
> applies. (TLDR: Skip to the end, read the last three quoted lines.)
>
> | A note about ioctl
> | ------------------
[snip]

> | What this means is that root can always make beep work (to the best
> | of my knowledge!), and that any local user can make beep work, BUT a
> | non-root remote user cannot use beep in it's natural state. 

Amazingly, I tried 'sudo beep' in Konsole and it worked! So this is not 
going to be a problem for my script because some items in the script use 
sudo anyway. I'll just do that with beep as well.