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Zoot 09-03-2009 03:11 AM
How to Disable the Terminal Beep when running the Shutdown command?
 
I've used the following script here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137
to upgrade Alsa to 1.0.21 in Ubuntu 8.04.

Now whenever I run:
Code:
sudo shutdown -h <time> or sudo reboot
from the terminal I get a rather annoying beep sound. What's even more annoying is if I use the shutdown command to specify a time I get a beep every 10 minutes or so.
I've tried disabling the terminal beep in the terminal profile, disabling the beep in System/Preferences/Sound, adding "blacklist pcspkr" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, and running gconf-editor from the terminal and setting /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/bell_mode to 'off' rather than 'on'.

This is rather annoying considering I use the shutdown command a lot when watching movies/TV series.
Anyone got any ideas on how to turn this thing off?

mdg 09-03-2009 04:58 AM
If the beep is coming from the pc-speaker, you could physically disable it on the motherboard.

Zoot 09-03-2009 10:16 AM
Thanks but it's a Laptop (Dell XPS M1530), and the beep comes from the PC speakers.

Anyway I've done a bit of digging, and it seems there's a mixer option for the PC Speaker in Alsa 1.0.21. I've also learned of a little app called GShutdown which I guess is just a GUI for the shutdown command. I'll try it later and post back the results.

repo 09-03-2009 10:19 AM
To disable the beep
Code:
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
To make it permanent
Code:
echo "blacklist pcspkr" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Zoot 09-03-2009 12:04 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by repo (Post 3668402)
To disable the beep
Code:
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
To make it permanent
Code:
echo "blacklist pcspkr" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Already tried that, no joy... Thanks anyway. :)

However what did work was muting the "PC Beep" in the Gnome ALSA Mixer. I think the Mixer option for that was only added with Alsa 1.0.21.

Either way, problem solved.

repo 09-03-2009 01:16 PM
Quote:
Either way, problem solved.
If you want you can mark the thread solved.

Zoot 09-03-2009 02:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by repo (Post 3668594)
If you want you can mark the thread solved.
Done. Thanks :)


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