How do I turn the annoying computer speaker off?

gekka · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Oslo, Norway

I'm playing around with DB2 and WebSphere on my newly installed gentoo box, and I'm getting SO annoyed by the constant beeping from the computer speaker. Guess this isn't really a gentoo issue (and yes, I'm newbish with linux), but can anyone give me any hints?
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dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

Why exactly is it beeping?

gekka · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Oslo, Norway

I'm using bash and it's beeping every time I use autocompletion and there's more than one completion, when I use backspace when there are no characters at the prompt, etc. Really annoying :(
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tukem · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:38 am Post subject:

If your running it from xterm then "xset b off" might help.

gekka · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Oslo, Norway

I'm not running X at all, I'm just running a simple console like the one you get after the base gentoo install.
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dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

It's funny... I actually even remember solving this (for consoles) but I can't remember how I did it... I still get the beeps when using terminals in X Windows... it drove me nuts at first... guess I've just gotten used to it...

Here is probably more than you'll ever want to know about the subject (and a few solutions):
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Visual-Bell.html.

gekka · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Oslo, Norway

"setterm -bfreq 0" worked :D
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TheCoop · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:35 pm Post subject:

yank the front panel speaker connector out of the motherboard
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lanius · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 160

With Kernel 2.5 you can just compile the speaker as module

MacMasta · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:42 pm Post subject:

I just unplugged the speaker from the mobo.

Did that with the power switches, too, come to think of it.

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phong · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 4:30 am Post subject:

To make it less annoying without getting rid of it completely, I do this in my local.start: