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

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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.

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