Disable system beep (Squeeze, with xorg from unstable)

war1025 · 08-17-2009, 12:44 PM

I upgraded to the latest xorg intel driver yesterday since the 2.6.30 kernel is in testing and the new intel driver needed at least a 2.6.28 kernel to use the latest improvements (very good results by the way)

Anyways, now I get the annoying system beep any time I scroll too far in terminal or do other things, is there any way to turn this off?

I tried rmmod pcspkr, but it didn't have any effect.

war1025 · 08-17-2009, 12:45 PM

Ok, I just found a setting in terminal that lets you disable the system beep. However, I would still like to just disable it in general. Any ideas?

easuter · 08-17-2009, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by war1025

Ok, I just found a setting in terminal that lets you disable the system beep. However, I would still like to just disable it in general. Any ideas?

I think that if you disable the pcspkr module the beeper will stop entirely:

Code:

modprobe -r pcspkr

Now try doing something that beeps

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If this works, then add the pcspkr module to the module blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to make this change permanent.

easuter · 08-17-2009, 01:02 PM

In addition to my previous post, it might also be necessary to add this to /etc/modprobe.conf:

Quote:

install pcspkr :

I had that in my commands "snippets" notepad from a couple of years ago; you would need to reboot after that IIRC...

war1025 · 08-18-2009, 03:13 PM

I found that you can actually mute the system beep in the volume controls (you need to go into preferences and check the box for the system beep)