Low Battery System Beep

exif · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: Low Battery System Beep

When my battery gets below 10% my laptop has a very loud system beep. I thought I disabled the PC speaker in the kernel. Any clues as to what could be causing this?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:

Maybe the system BIOS is actually the one detecting it and beeping at you?

exif · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:

I've looked at the BIOS and there are no options to enable or disable anything like this.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5956

my thinkpad is the same way, can't really do anything about it besides rip the speaker right out. :lol:

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exif · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

I'm actually considering open up the laptop and doing exactly that... I often use up my battery until it's pretty much dead in class and I can't have my new laptop blaring every minute or so for the last 25 minutes of use.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5956

i had a thought, there might be a way to tone it down, but i'm not sure if it will affect system sounds... try pressing fn+pagedown (depending on the laptop, it should have a volume label on it)... that might help, but depending on how you set your laptop up, it could turn down your system sounds too.

cheers
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