How to disable that annoying BEEP?

lectraplayer · 04-26-2007, 08:01 PM

Strange.

The Fn+F? key combo is usually a CMOS function, so your Linux shouldn't have anything to do with it unless maybe it overrides it somehow. It still worked on my Thinkpad for several Linuxes, including Fedora, several SuSE's, several Mandrakes, Ubuntu, Linspire, and others I've thrown at it. I've never tried Slackware but have heard it's good. Still, you may want to try another Linux to see if your trouble may be there. ...or ask the guys at Slackware about it.

hashash · 04-26-2007, 08:09 PM

had the same annoyance with my desktop.
just rmmod pcspkr did it for me..Though havent rebooted since, might have to remove the module automaticall/ prevent it loading

Mind you.. this still let me play music off the headphone *and* the inbuilt speaker.

Again.. I think it might all be hardware specific.

Four · 04-26-2007, 08:21 PM

I have the fn+Page up and fn+Page down for sound. I use kubuntu running fluxbox. using fn+Page up/down doesn't work. Also I have another button fn+end which as the image imply's should disable/enable the sound. That too doesn't work. Anything special I have to do?

lectraplayer · 04-28-2007, 09:36 PM

You may either have to chase down drivers for your peticular laptop or you may have to just live with it. Stuff like that, I have not found squat for. That's all I know.

...and I hate that when it happens.

alexander_bosakov · 05-01-2007, 06:16 PM

Try "modprobe -r pcspkr" as root. If compiled as a module, of course.

EternalCuriosity · 09-03-2015, 12:05 PM

I'd faced this same issue and came across this forum. I was able to turn the beep off and want to share for users who might face this issue and get redirected here. Carry out following steps:

From GUI:
>System >Preferences >Sound >System Beep > Uncheck System Beep

From CLI:
Open blacklist file in /etc/modprobe.d and add pcspkr in the blacklist.

I hope this will help and save trouble.

jkirchner · 09-03-2015, 03:48 PM

Why are you using Red Hat 9? It is way way past any support; it came out in 2003. You may want to look into something much more current.

Emerson · 09-03-2015, 04:23 PM

OP posted it in 2003. EternalCuriosity didn't pay attention and resurrected this thread. Necromancy.

jkirchner · 09-03-2015, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

OP posted it in 2003. EternalCuriosity didn't pay attention and resurrected this thread. Necromancy.

Maybe he could bring back my childhood dog?

D'oh, cannot believe I missed that, too much of that thing going on in the forum this year....

John VV · 09-04-2015, 01:28 PM

necro posts........

but if one is still using RH9 -- there is a BIG problem

other than in a vm for some MUST USE "critical" closed source proprietary legacy software

and if that is the case you ALSO have a big problem

ugjka · 09-04-2015, 01:33 PM

Code:

rmmod pcspkr
echo "blacklist pcspkr" > /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf

EternalCuriosity · 09-07-2015, 11:24 PM

Guys I'd installed RHEL 5.5 in my virutal platform for test purpose. I didn't know it had same interface as RH 9!

If a necro post still comes up in search result and help somebody, the resurrection is well worth.

Captain Pinkeye · 09-08-2015, 02:47 AM

In Debian i used to simply mute it via the alsamixer.

You know,
open terminal -> start alsamixer -> select the right card with F6 -> mute the pc beep or whatever is it called..

cynwulf · 09-08-2015, 05:04 AM

Add

Code:

xset b off &

to ~/.xinitrc
For other desktops, session managers, display mangers, etc which are not started via the "startx" script - not sure.

edit: make sure the above is before the window manager is launched

itscience · 09-08-2015, 05:57 AM

I'm a noob but if you have alsa what about $alsamixer ?
That gives me a console menu and I can turn down the beep. I'm on a laptop :-)