Can't Stop System Beep On Dell D620

Ok I am running openSuse 10.3 64bit with KDE on a Dell 620.

I get system beep in the xterm and in other programs like Eclipse. The beep is really loud and a problem as I am in a quite workplace it is quite disturbing...

Here are the things I have tried
Adding "set bell-style none" to /etc/inputrc
Adding "blacklist pcspkr" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Adding "setterm -blength" to .bashrc and .bash_profile


Any other ideas? Or am I out of luck with this distribution?

Ok I am running openSuse 10.3 64bit with KDE on a Dell 620.

I get system beep in the xterm and in other programs like Eclipse. The beep is really loud and a problem as I am in a quite workplace it is quite disturbing...

Here are the things I have tried
Adding "set bell-style none" to /etc/inputrc
Adding "blacklist pcspkr" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Adding "setterm -blength" to .bashrc and .bash_profile
Any other ideas? Or am I out of luck with this distribution?
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Is your sound card working? I usually only get a system beep when my sound card is not yet configured.

Is your sound card working? I usually only get a system beep when my sound card is not yet configured.
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For me (Dell D520) it was enough to add this to my ~/.profile ;

#silence beep
setterm -blength 0

Also in the terminal program configuration you should be able to disable bell alarms.

Hope it helps,
Wj

edit: to make this work for root as well (so you won't get beeps when su'ing) create a file called .profile in the /root directory with the same settings...

My Sound card does work great. I listen to mp3s just fine.

I get the beep when ever a system alert is thrown... (one way I test is open up search in Firefox and try to find a word that is not on the page). Or terminal errors set the beep off too..

Here is my .profile which is in my ~ dir of course

# Sample .profile for SuSE Linux
# rewritten by Christian Steinruecken <cstein@suse.de>
#
# This file is read each time a login shell is started.
# All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly
# important for language settings, see below.

test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile

# Most applications support several languages for their output.
# To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or
# add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)
#
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8********# uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8********# uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8********# uncomment this line for Spanish output


# Some people don't like fortune. If you uncomment the following lines,
# you will have a fortune each time you log in;-)

#if [ -x /usr/bin/fortune ]; then
#****echo
#****/usr/bin/fortune
#****echo
#fi

#silence beep
setterm -blength 0

It did not fix the problem either....

Ok when I enter this "xset -b b 0" it removes the beep. But where can I do this so that who ever boots the computer it will take effect?

Okay seriously.


KDE Personal Settings ---> Regional and Accessibility --> Accessibility --> Activation Gestures --> uncheck the box marked "Use KDE's system notification mechanism whenever a keyboard accesibility feature is turned on or off"

You're welcome :lol:.

Okay seriously.
KDE Personal Settings ---> Regional and Accessibility --> Accessibility --> Activation Gestures --> uncheck the box marked "Use KDE's system notification mechanism whenever a keyboard accesibility feature is turned on or off"

You're welcome :lol:.
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I don't use KDE that much.... but thanks anyway! :lol:

Okay seriously.
KDE Personal Settings ---> Regional and Accessibility --> Accessibility --> Activation Gestures --> uncheck the box marked "Use KDE's system notification mechanism whenever a keyboard accesibility feature is turned on or off"

You're welcome :lol:.
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And this works when you boot to the console how? Lets not get snotty at each other...

Here are the things I have tried
Adding "set bell-style none" to /etc/inputrc[/b]

I just added this to my '/etc/inputrc' config file:

linux:/home/dean # cat /etc/inputrc
################################################## ##############################
## /etc/inputrc
##
## Attempt to put different TERMs together in one readline init file.
## Copyright © 1997,2000,2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
##
## Author: Werner Fink
## Please send feedback to http://www.suse.de/feedback
##
################################################## ##############################
#
# Eight bit compatible: Umlaute
#
set meta-flag on
set output-meta on
set convert-meta off
set term xy
set bell-style none
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It works fine. Make sure you haven't made a typo.

I just added this to my '/etc/inputrc' config file:
It works fine. Make sure you haven't made a typo.
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Strait copy paste....

"\C-\e[A":******up-history
"\C-\e[B":******down-history
$endif
#
# end
#
#Added to get rid of beeping
set bell-style none

Where can I put "xset -b b 0" so that it is run everytime as that seems to be the only thing that fixes this?