Hey everyone, I need a little help here.

Whenever I tell my laptop to shut down, it gives me that horrid loud noise. When my headphones are plugged in, it comes in through there, and when they're not, it comes out the regular speakers. This is regardless of my mixer settings and pcspkr. I blacklisted that module and it still does this.

Any help please? Running Debian Squeeze on a laptop so ripping out the speaker inside isn't feasable, and still, the sound's not coming through there anyway.

I did a lot of googling and it's all the same answers that I've already tried, like blacklisting pcspkr and changing the mixer settings.

Help please?

Had a similar issue sometime ago, for me it was changing the kernel that worked (now using the one from Liquorix).

audio card model and name would be helpful

when you muted your audio channels did you store the settings before shutting down (alsactl store)?

blacklisting wouldn't guarantee it's not loaded. Before shutting down do you confirm that the pcspkr module isn't there?

This issue has been bothering me for a long time too. Now it bothers me enough that I want to do something about it. As best I can determine, the bell on comes from wall, because when I invoke wall by itself, I get the same bell or "beep" that I get when I invoke or shutdown. If I shutdown from X within GDM, I get the same bell I cannot silence whether or not there are xterms or gnome terminals open in X.

I'm the only user on this system. I really don't want a bell to sound every time I shut down the system. Where does one go to disable or comment-out the bell called by wall? Thanks.

Debian squeeze/sid amd64 on Vostro 1520 laptop with intel soundcard.

It's never really bothered me enough to want to disable it... but if you uncomment the line

In /etc/inputrc the bell should be disabled system wide.

Thanks for the response, Caravel, but that doesn't silence the bell on shutdown, halt or /usr/bin/wall. I will keep looking. Let me know if you think of anything else.

Check and see if the module snd_pcsp is loaded. You may need to unload/blacklist it.

I have a lot of snd_* modules loaded, but snd_pcsp is not one of them.

snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm
snd_seq
snd_timer
snd_seq_device
soundcore
snd_page_alloc
sd_mod
sdhci_pci
sdhci

Thanks

You're right it's nothing to do with the bell or pc speaker. I've had this before on a certain kernel while squeeze was still in testing. It's a loud beep which comes via the sound chip/card as soon as you shut down and not pc speaker.

Try the following first as a troubleshooting exercise:

Exit from your DE back to gdm then do CTRL+Alt+Fn (1/2/3/4/5/6) login/su to root

Is there a beep on shut down?

Yes, it still beeps.

Sounds like exactly the trouble I had, and the process I've been through. One possibility is to check the alsamixer settings - even if the PC speaker is set to 0 volume, the beep still comes through at full volume - if you mute it (press 'm' or ',' key if you are in the command line gui) it should stop all system beeps - at least that's what worked for me. You can
also simply type which also worked for me.

Because this thread comes up early in google results I would also like to re-iterate that
disabling pcspkr or snd_pcsp DOES NOT WORK -at least not in Debian Squeeze, which I'm pretty sure doesn't load these modules anyway. Neither does changing bell settings in the terminal.

Hope this helps.

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...seems to work. If I find out differently, I will post.

<bowing in homage>My wife, my neighbors and total strangers thank you, deb-wrangler, for your suggestion and solution!</bowing in homage>

I have had the same problem. And, I recently posted a question about it on the debian forums here.

In my case, the beep related to the gdm3 display manager. And blacklisting various modules didn't help. Modifying gdm3's config files didn't resolve it for me either. But someone suggested that I install gnome-alsamixer, and choose the disable beep option... and that fixed it for me.

Annoying beeps are a special curse, because there can be several possible causes...