Beep is back!

Andrew Robinson andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 20:55:04 CET 2008


Nevermind, got a fix:

modprobe -r pcspkr

-Andrew

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Andrew Robinson
<andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well for a while on my xubuntu box the system beep was gone and I was
>  very happy. Recently the beep came back and I am not sure why. Even in
>  firefox, I disabled the beep (set
>  accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound to false) but it is still
>  beeping!
>
>  I tried disabling the beep through the gnome configuration manager
>  sound, but to no avail.
>
>  I tried the XFCE Sound configuration in the Xfce Settings Manager and
>  there doesn't appear to be any setting for disabling this beep.
>
>  I am in cube land so system beeps are really annoying to myself as
>  well as others. Is there any way in XFCE to completely disable the
>  ability for my computer to beep?
>
>  2.6.22-14-generic i686
>  xfce4 4.4.1
>  firefox 2.0.0.12
>
>  Dell Latitude D630
>  00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
>  Controller (rev 02)
>
>  Thank you,
>  Andrew
>



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