Turn Off Startsound (Dong)

fuchsmi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 118

Hi!
I have an iBook (iBook2 G3 12" 500MHz) booting only gentoo (no OSx).
How can I turn off the startsound (the dong before yaboot start its job)?

Michi

boojummy · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Supposedly, if you mute the sound in OSX before shutdown, it stays muted on startup, thus turning off the boot chime. I have no idea how one would accomplish this in Linux, because I suspect that sound works very differently between the two. You could try messing with amixer before shutting down and see if it works, tho

I also heard that pressing F3 on startup works on some PB models. Give that a try, too. I don't have a PB, so I also don't know about that one.

You could also try poking around in Open Firmware, if you're feeling really brave...

gordin · Guru Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 300 Location: Germany/WI

I have phoned Apple-Service because of this, once.
They said that this was a unusal wish and told about the possibility of muting sound under OSX before shutdown.
It does not work on my IBook 700, though.

I also asked about OpenFirmware. They said that this is not possible because the sound is telling the user that everything is going fine and therefore it is a good thing ;-)

But maybe they also just not know.

fuchsmi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 118

your at university, computerscience lection, 500 student, 200 with a laptop. thats how it is at my university.
now imagine everyone would have an iBook...

garn · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 131

Mute it from linux an it should stay muted. Set it so it automatically mutes on shutdown, then just unmute when you want sound.

Or plug in head phones.

Scorp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 118

find an old pair of headphones that you never use/need and cut off the little plug, carry it in your pocket and when you need to turn the sound off plug it in.
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Heimir Freyr · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

I've got a PowerBook G3 and also can't stand that sound when at the Uni. Like someone else said around here somewhere you can press and hold at startup (BEFORE entering OpenFirmware and Yaboot):

FN+F6 (Sound Mute)

or (if you don't use the FN combo to change sound level):

F6 (Sound Mute)

This (FN F6) works great for me and does not affect the Linux sound volume when booted. Make sure to press the buttons at the very beginning of the boot process.

Crypto · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Portugal

If you shut down from macOS with the sound mutted, the next time you boot up, you won't hear that sound (anoying to some, funny for for others)

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KruzeS · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 60 Location: Portugal

I have the same model, and belive me: I installed MaxOS X just to get rid of that sound.

I then formated the partition and intalled only gentoo. I found MaxOS X terribly usefull, though: it allowed me to get rid of annoyance.

In MaxOS X you can get rid of it without muting, I think. I believe it's some place where you could even change the sound to something else.

I regret not having done so, and put somethink more discreet: the iBook takes so much time to show the first screen that sometimes I get people pressing the button 2 and 3 times before they understand it takes time.