On Sat, 11 May 2019 16:03:47 +0200
Björn Lundin  wrote:

> It may be that 'beep' is another (muted) input to alsa ?

On x86, beep rattles the PC speaker directly, through the /dev
filesystem, bypassing *all* the Linux audio APIs. That's really what it
was designed for. You can redirect it to other devices (which is
presumably why it's in Rasbian at all; it could be useful with GPIO),
but without some serious jiggery-pokery you're not going to get it to
use ALSA or Pulse at all.

Honestly, I'd just replace beep with a sample played through
aplay, mplayer, or something. Not as elegant, but *way* simpler.

--
Duncan Snowden.

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