That annoying beep

zchoyt · 08-30-2004, 08:31 PM

Is there a way to disable the motherboard speaker from beeping everytime I make a wrong key stroke, or totally? Since I have installed linux, I have been "THAT GUY" in class with the noisy computer that everyone get annoyed with.

egag · 08-30-2004, 08:41 PM

yes, there is , i read it on the site of someone :callsign ''Insyte'', but i
can't find his web-adress. ( must be somewhere on the Slackware-forum )

egag

IBall · 08-30-2004, 08:59 PM

Edit the file /etc/inputrc. You will need to be root to do this.
Find the line that says "set bell-style audible" and change it to "set bell-style none"

When you reboot, the beep will be gone

I hope this helps
--Ian

zchoyt · 08-30-2004, 09:04 PM

Thanks, it worked like a charm.

zakk

chadwick · 01-03-2007, 04:58 PM

It seems to me that using inputrc only fixes beeping associated with the bash shell. When I do it this way, the beeping from unsuccessful tab completions goes away, but I still get beeping in emacs and in less for example. You can remove the relevant module (called pcspkr) from the kernel and you'll still be able to listen to whatever you want from the soundcard since, as zchoyt mentions, the beeping's not coming from the soundcard. I have the module removed right now and there is no beeping. That's nice since I listen to the radio with headphones and the beeping is REALLY loud with my headphones. If you decide you need it again you can always insert the module back.

Here's an explanation:

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=484

Sorry, there seems to be a problem right now with kernel 2.6.18 so the blacklisting doesn't work with that particular module but the rmmod works. Maybe there's a better way then that doesn't require always using rmmod.

homey · 01-03-2007, 05:27 PM

On my FC6 box, I put the modprobe -r pcspkr command in a file which gets run at bootup.

Code:

(echo '#!/bin/sh'; echo 'modprobe -r pcspkr') \
> /etc/sysconfig/modules/pcspkr.modules
chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/pcspkr.modules

If for some crazy reason I did want that beep, I could run the command: modprobe pcspkr . NOT!

chadwick · 01-05-2007, 08:38 PM

Thanks for the tip. I did a search and found this really useful site: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28
which explained how to do it on my Debian system.
I just put "rmmod pcspkr" into a script and no more beep.