beep: Error: Could not open any device [solved]

[Member indigo51]

Hello everybody!

I just installed antix21 on a lenovo T60; All sounds are working just out of the box.
Then i installed beep (beep 1.4.9) but e.g beep -l 200 -f 1000
gives this error message:

$ beep: Error: Could not open any device

beep --debug
gives

beep: Verbose: evdev driver_detect 0x46c6e0 (nil)
beep: Verbose: b-lib: could not stat(2) /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr: No such file or directory
beep: Verbose: console driver_detect 0x46c6a0 (nil)
beep: Verbose: b-lib: could not open(2) /dev/tty0: Permission denied
beep: Verbose: b-lib: could not stat(2) /dev/vc/0: No such file or directory
beep: Error: Could not open any device

$ tput bel

stays silent;
Playing a mp4-video using VLC or MPV works fine.

$ sudo tput bel

stays silent as well…

Thanks for your help.

• This topic was modified 1 year ago by indigo51.
• This topic was modified 1 year ago by indigo51.

[Moderator caprea]

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Hi indigo51, the pcspkr module is blacklisted per default on antiX in /etc/modprobe.d/pc-speaker.conf

It’s also possible the beep is muted in alsamixer.

[Member indigo51]

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Hello caprea,
Solved by your proposal.
Commenting # blacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d/pc-speaker.conf
and running sudo modprobe -a snd-pcsp pcspkr did the trick.

beep works, tput bel works as well.

Thanks a lot!

(I’m afraid i posted this question in the wrong forum… feel free to move it to a better place…)

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by indigo51.

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