Beep is back!

[Harold Aling]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:55:04 -0700
"Andrew Robinson" <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> _______________________________________________


If you put 'blacklist pcspkr' in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it'll be
gone forever!

This is in fact the first thing I do on a fresly installed *ubuntu.


-H-