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curmudgeon Veteran
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 1741
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:42 am Post subject: How do I turn it (beeping) OFF (or even down)? |
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I have a Dell laptop where the system beep is unbelievably loud.
A few situations:
Machine on before booting gentoo - all is peacefully quiet.
Machine booted, but before logging into console, volume keys (up, down, mute) emit a loud, low frequency beep.
After logging in (bash), volume keys beep at a higher frequency (just as loud, though), and "errors" such as hitting backspace on an empty line, also produce the loud, high frequency beep.
After logging in (X), everything is blissfully quiet again.
I found (and even read) this:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Visual-Bell-8.html
But "set bell-style none" does NOT make a difference. There must be some way to control this (at the console). |
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Satoshi Apprentice
Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 180 Location: Brazil
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:36 am Post subject: |
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If I'm not mistaken, you can disable it in the kernel. |
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cwr Veteran
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 8:10 am Post subject: |
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The sound drivers seem to remember the last sound setting across reboots, so I've generally found
sound levels to be a balance between the hardware setting (some sort of button on the keyboard)
and the sound drivers setting (the GUI volume control).
Will |
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ppurka Advocate
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 8:27 am Post subject: |
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In X, you can use xset to turn it off or to turn down the volume. Look at the option b of xset.
In general, you can simply unload the pcspkr module or remove it from your kernel. In recent hardware alsa might also control the beeps in which case you will have a separate channel in alsamixer which can be muted to turn off beeps. _________________ emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using kde5 | e is unstable :-/ |
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chiefbag Guru
Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 542 Location: The Kingdom
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:04 am Post subject: |
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I always do the following.
Device Drivers --->
Input device support --->
[*] Miscellaneous devices --->
< > PC Speaker support |
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tomk Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 7221 Location: Sat in front of my computer
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