digitalTRASH.org 22 052008

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Thu, 22 May 2008

Annoying System Beep

The system beep in Linux and *BSD is driving me nuts. Under VMWare it is really LOUD which is not nice in an office environment (or any other for that fact)

Here are a few ways to turn this thing off that have worked for me.

Linux:

Black list the module: edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line; blacklist pcspkr

FreeBSD (maybe others too):

X Windows: xset b off
csh/tcsh: set nobeep
Globally: put hw.syscons.bell=0 in the /etc/sysctl.conf file

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