For anyone with a laptop who works in a library or other quiet area, system beeps every time you press the backspace key one too many times, or just using emacs, can be quite disturbing.
To shut them off: open an xterm or terminal, and enter the two lines Code:
xset b off xset b 0 0 0
Hope this helps.
There's also another way:
(as root) Code:
rmmod pcspkr
This removes the (annoying) pc-speaker driver. To load it back, just type:
(as root) Code:
modprobe pcspkr
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2006-08-2 at 13:30 |
Thank you! I was annoying everybody in the library here with that beep. But everytime you boot Ubuntu you have to rmmod pcspkr again. Any idea how to keep it permanent?
2006-08-13 at 11:00 |
don’t forget about turning off the console via:
setterm -blength 0
2006-08-15 at 14:43 |
For Ubuntu (I don’t know how other distros work):
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add line:
blacklist pcspkr
Great tip, my Latitude D620 has a loud beep, to say the least.
2006-11-15 at 07:59 |
and what is the difference in not compiling it in the kernel on the first place? (It’s under “Device Drivers —> Input Device Support —> [*] Misc —> PC Speaker support” in the 2.6 kernels.)
2007-01-10 at 22:11 |
Nothing I do on my D620 will stop the pcspkr module from loading on startup. I’ve blacklisted it as shown here and tried the hotplug blacklist, the stupid thing continues beeping after I restart!!!!!
2007-02-1 at 08:33 |
Ahhh! Blacklist tip in Ubunut Edgy above worked fine ! I love my D620 when i shuts up…..
2007-02-16 at 17:38 |
I thank you for your comment.
2007-04-10 at 16:09 |
Yeah, thanks a lot!!!!
My problem was that in a library or quiet environment I would use the headphones… and that beep made me lost at least 30% of my hearing capacity!
2007-04-10 at 16:09 |
Sorry, “lose” not “lost”.
2007-05-13 at 21:40 |
For my D620, running SuSE 10.2, the “setterm -blength 0” worked. I set it in boot.local, but, being concerned about that being overridden by logins, I also added it to /etc/bash.bashrc.local. So far, it seems to be working. Thank the lord. That beep was killing me! I also verified that normal sound, in X, worked, and playwave worked just fine.
2008-03-19 at 17:10 |
That’s cool. I were scratching my head googling to kill this annoyance. Thanks a lot dude
2008-04-9 at 14:46 |
Thanks for the tip!
2008-06-17 at 10:37 |
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2008-11-20 at 07:31 |
Thanks, nice tip. I have to say it was very annoying and embarrassing when happens at office.
2008-12-5 at 11:01 |
Thanks you so much!
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2009-02-12 at 09:59 |
Dude. thanks so much for this.
2009-03-23 at 16:05 |
Yey.
Thanks!
2009-05-28 at 00:21 |
Gracias….
Me traia loco ese beep del sistema..
Pero se acabo al fin…
Gracias de nuevo
2009-09-4 at 13:51 |
That’s a really annoying sound! I made it mute using this trick:
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2012-03-1 at 17:57 |
The following worked for me in Suse (no root required):
In German
Systemeinstellungen > Anwendungs- und Systembenachrichtigungen > Signalton:
Haken bei “Signalton statt Systemnachrichten verwenden”! Aber Lautstärke auf 0% setzen!
In English something like
System settings > application and system messages > System Beep tab
Check “Enable System Beep”! But set its to intensity to 0%!
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