[Sound] Disable Pc / Motherboard Speaker

[jsnel]

Please help me disable my most annoying laptop speakers (the one on the motherboard, not the normal speakers), before I reach for a sledgehammer. Honestly I don't understand why this is not disabled by default (in OpenSUSE 11.0, not tested with 10.3), other than waking up everybody in the house when you press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE in the middle of the night I see no purpose for it.

I'd like to put this thread forward as a reference: Disable Pc / Motherboard Speaker

But the solution presented there is not so clear for me, there the~jester suggests:

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

But /etc/inputrc is a gigantic file with lots of if statement so where to add this line and using what syntax?

Or is there an even easier solution (via Yast)?

[oldcpu]

I would think there are many places/files where you can place the "setterm -blength" command, during the boot.

There are also other solutions:
HowTo: Turn off (mute) system beep « Muahahahahah

[jsnel]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

I would think there are many places/files where you can place the "setterm -blength" command, during the boot.

I guess I'll have to try that, what file can I put it in so that even when I'm in init 3 I get no system bleeps.

There are also other solutions:
HowTo: Turn off (mute) system beep « Muahahahahah

I tried that:
rmmod pcspkr
ERROR: Module pcspkr does not exist in /proc/modules

[jsnel]

The only thing relevant in my /proc/modules I can find is:

cat /proc/modules | grep snd

snd_usb_audio 88704 1 - Live 0xf9552000
snd_usb_lib 22016 1 snd_usb_audio, Live 0xf9508000
snd_rawmidi 30208 1 snd_usb_lib, Live 0xf94ea000
snd_pcm_oss 51968 0 - Live 0xf94b2000
snd_mixer_oss 21120 1 snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf9485000
snd_seq 61376 0 - Live 0xf9491000
snd_seq_device 12812 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq, Live 0xf9478000
snd_hda_intel 374172 8 - Live 0xf99fe000
snd_pcm 87812 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel, Live 0xf9962000
snd_timer 28424 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm, Live 0xf98f8000
snd_page_alloc 14984 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm, Live 0xf988e000
snd_hwdep 14084 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel, Live 0xf98b4000
snd 67256 26 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel ,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep, Live 0xf9898000
soundcore 11976 1 snd, Live 0xf9425000
usbcore 152012 8 uvcvideo,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usb_storage,usb hid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd, Live 0xf97ba000

As for disabling KDE4's bleeps one has to dig into the Notifications settings via:
Configure Desktop -> Notifications
In "System Bell" untick "Use system bell instead of system notifications"
In "System Notifications" And in the tab "Player Settings" say "No Audio Output" - although this doesn't seem to be saved (even in svn builds of KDE4.1 as reported here) but it seems to work nonetheless ... no beeps so far ... ahhhh the silence, so good.

[drye]

To disable the speaker globally this worked for me:

xset b off 
xset b 0 0 0