Comments on: Blacklist your PC speaker

By: RusFuture

RusFuture — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:17:09 +0000

Hi,

This was very, very useful information for me. I used your
note on how to do the “blacklist” to remove the loading of
my pcspkr speaker driver, on my Fedora 9 DEC-5000 box. This
has been a *VERY GOOD THING*, as the pcspkr driver apparently
was conflicting with my “snd-cs4236″ sound card driver, and
now I have *music*!! (as well as not having the damn
beeping speaker…) I had put the set no-bell option in
my runcontrol files, but still got the beep in the vi editor,
by the way, so this approach is still useful, even if all you
want to do is whack the annoying beeping.
Thanx for this.
- Rus

By: Paul Roach

Paul Roach — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:55 +0000

My god…..that’s may my day/week/year and those of my colleagues who share an open-plan office with me…..

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU

By: GoofY

GoofY — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:48:56 +0000

Great artikle, it drove me nuts when I was trying out things. Problem is I couldn’t find out whether it could be a bit more silent, though I don’t think so cause it’s only a beep thingie.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:35:40 +0000

I’ll try all three of these. I learned to blacklist the module from the Arch wiki, and just translated it to Ubuntu later. If I’m right, that will only work on a per-user basis, won’t it? I’ll have to try; I don’t want the bell to ring in a root session of nano.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:16:48 +0000

This is a tad extreme approach. Have you tried simply adding:

set bell-style none

to your .bashrc, .bash_profile or .inputrc?

Also, xset -b should disable it for the current X session. Or was that not enough for Arch?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:03:36 +0000

@Dr Small: Usually the speaker itself is part of the case, and there’s a slim wire that leads from a jumper on the motherboard to the speaker. Every motherboard is different, of course. I guess you could check a parts store to see if they have mountable speakers, but I don’t know. You could also tear one out of a used case, and attach it to your present case if it doesn’t have one.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:01:21 +0000

I tried that once, about a year ago, and it didn’t work for me. It’s possible I did it wrong; I’ll try that in the next install, and see if it works any better for me. Thanks.

By: xanthus

xanthus — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:40:48 +0000

It is better to put the blacklisted modules in a custom file (i.e. /etc/modprobe.d/my_custom_blacklist) because if you upgrade the system /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist can be overriden and you lost your blacklisted modules.

Regards.

By: Dr Small

Dr Small — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:40:24 +0000

I miss the system beep on this new motherboard :’(
It doesn’t have an internal speaker, I guess.

Where would I look to find an internal speaker for my motherboard, to install on it ?

Dr Small