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okay, i just thought there was somewhere in the configuration file where you could specify to disable it because when i tried other distros, not all of them have the beeps during a reboot/shutdown session.
do you know exactly where in sysconfig? I looked through it but couldn't find anything referencing to it. I might have skipped it but I don't think I saw anything with a beep.
I am using Suse 9.2 and I also would like to stop the two beeps from the pc
speaker on shutdown / reboot.
The first advice about disconnecting the pc speaker is impossible for me, I'm
on a laptop. Besides, I am pretty sure this is OS related, cause no other OS
I have tried beeps on shutdown (Win2000, WinXP, FreeBSD).
The second advice about searching for beeps in /etc/sysconfig editor: I have
done that and it did find 2 entries, but both were allready set to 'no'.
Doesn't anyone have some idea of what is making the 2 beeps and/or how to stop
them? They are really loud and really anoying
This worked for me. In my case, I'm using SuSE 9.2 and it was the pcmcia setting that was set to "yes".
Maybe try switching the pcmcia to "yes", save, restart, and then switch it back to "no", save, and restart? It's just a guess as I'm not sure why yours is set to "no" and you're still hearing the beeps.
Just to clarify, I'd found the setting in sysconfig by searching for "beep". One of the two results was already set to "no". The pcmcia one was set to "yes".
I have searched the entire web (i feel like it) and haven't found any clue to the problem - and suddenly, BAM, Northpole is writing the solution. I thank you so much Northpole
Btw. i changed a total of 5 lines with echo - but it worked - and I'm happy
Like he said, it's in /etc/rc.d/halt !
If you can't figure out what that means, I urge you to drop that for now and read about more vital issues than a beep.
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