Disable Pc / Motherboard Speaker

Does anyone know how to disable to system beep and or the system speaker on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop? I am usually in runlevel 3 a lot and if I backspace to far or try a tab complete where there is no match or multiple matches the system beeps obscenely loud! During system shutdown it beeps as well. Aside from physically disconnection the system speaker is there a way to disable it, remove the beep or at least set it at a level that doesn't wake the dead.

Here is a list of the snd modules
snd_pcm_oss 53376 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 60272 0
snd_seq_device 12812 1 snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 23060 4
snd_hda_codec 164352 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 86916 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 27908 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 61188 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 13792 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm


A lsmod | grep spkr doesn't come back with anything.

Running opensuse 10.2

Thanks
jester :blink:

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I tried this but it doesn't fix it. I still get the system beep in runlevel 3. Any other thoughts?

thanks,

Well I found that if I do

setterm -blength

turns off the beep but it doesn't survive reboot, so I added it to /etc/skel but that didn't work.

Some have suggested adding set bell-style none to /etc/inputrc others have said to add the setterm -blength to $HOME/.bash_profile but I don't have that in my home dir. If inputrc doesn't work I will try adding it to /etc/profile

jester

.bash_profile but I don't have that in my home dir

Just create the file

adding set bell-style none to /etc/inputrc work.

ha the silence is bliss.