I don’t enjoy hearing the internal speaker beep every time I perform an illegal action on the keyboard. After failing to find anywhere to disable it–previously System/Preferences/Hardware/Sound took care of this–a series of searches on Google landed me at bugzilla 471582.
I didn’t see this listed as a known Fedora 10 issue so here is how to fix it as described in the bug report.
As root:
# rmmod pcspkr # echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
(Update 2009-01-26): I had no idea people would be so excited about this topic on planet.fedoraproject.org. Karsten aptly points out that this is described in the release notes–which I did search. I was looking for “system bell” as that was the label of check box item that could be disabled in Fedora 9. It still doesn’t make sense to me why it was removed from the GUI, but if I were to suggest a release note for this it would be to note the loss of functionality in the GUI from the previous release and then reference the CLI “fix”.
4 responses so far ↓
The Grand Fallacy » Accursed beepitude. // January 23, 2009 at 11:16 pm
[...] John, I’ve been silencing that beep in a less drastic way — I edit the file /etc/inputrc and uncomment the line for setting the bell style to none. I’m not sure if that quiets things down for every use case though. [...]
Peter’s Musings » If a PC speaker beeps in a Fedora system and no one is around to hear it, is it still annoying? // January 24, 2009 at 11:46 am
[...] John, and Joeren, I find that beeping so annoying that I simply eliminate that module entirely rather [...]
i, quaid › Release note for disabling PC speaker actually in Fedora 10! // January 26, 2009 at 3:33 pm
[...] of discussions about what to do with your PC speaker, I didn’t see anyone note that the CLI fix is described [...]
Linux with Doubts :: Various Linux and Fedora News // March 1, 2009 at 9:04 am
[...] release, apparently many people have been having issues with the System Bell. For a quick tip on disabling the Fedora 10 system bell. Yeah, that beep is [...]
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