Difference between revisions of "How to disable the pc speaker (beep!)"
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| − | Get rid of the annoying beeps in Linux (Xubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft): Remove the pc speaker module. | + | Get rid of the annoying beeps in Linux (Xubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft): Remove the pc speaker module "pcspkr". |
Open a terminal and issue this command as root: | Open a terminal and issue this command as root: | ||
rmmod pcspkr | rmmod pcspkr | ||
| − | To prevent the pcspkr module from loading again at startup, open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your favorite text editor (as root) and add following lines to the end of the file: | + | To prevent the "pcspkr" module from loading again at startup, open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your favorite text editor (as root) and add following lines to the end of the file: |
# disable the **** pc speaker | # disable the **** pc speaker | ||
blacklist pcspkr | blacklist pcspkr | ||
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| + | ==Re-enabling the pc speaker== | ||
| + | Temporarily activate it by loading the module (run this from a terminal with root privileges): | ||
| + | modprobe pcspkr | ||
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| + | If you don't want to prevent the module from loading during startup, delete the lines described in the previous section from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. | ||
Revision as of 13:45, 2 March 2007
Get rid of the annoying beeps in Linux (Xubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft): Remove the pc speaker module "pcspkr".
Open a terminal and issue this command as root:
rmmod pcspkr
To prevent the "pcspkr" module from loading again at startup, open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your favorite text editor (as root) and add following lines to the end of the file:
# disable the **** pc speaker blacklist pcspkr
Re-enabling the pc speaker
Temporarily activate it by loading the module (run this from a terminal with root privileges):
modprobe pcspkr
If you don't want to prevent the module from loading during startup, delete the lines described in the previous section from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
