Kernel 2.6.18-1.2200 beeps too often

[Giuseppe Castagna]

I disabled it via gnome and gdm:

For Gnome:
system > preferences > sounds > System Beep

and for the startup run gdmsetup and turn sound off in the Accessibility tag.

I am pretty satified with the result. BTW, I use the visual bell of compiz, 
which I found as useful as the beep, but far less disturbing.

---Beppe---




Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:56:45AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:47 +0100, Leo wrote:
>>> Following the kernel update in FC5, a few people (including me) have
>>> noticed that their computers beep almost everywhere.
>> I would vote to turn it off, but I'm fine with it if others find it
>> useful.
> 
> To turn that off system-wide just put in /etc/modprobe.conf this
> line:
> 
> install pcspkr :
> 
> This will work the next time modules are loaded.  For now you
> can do 'modprobe -r pcspkr'.
> 
> If you want to silence that where 'readline' is used, like in bash,
> then make your own ~/.inputrc with 'set bell-style none' there
> (details in 'info bash') and that hopefully should do it.
> 
>    Michal
>