Disable the PC speaker

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I know this has been asked many times before, but I’m still not satisfied with any answers that have been given. All I want to do is simply disable the PC speaker completely in openSUSE 11.0.

xset b off
xset b 0 0 0
setterm -blength 0

…are not what I’m looking for.

set bell-style none

…in inputrc is not going to cut it, either.

I happen to like the soft bell that KDE pipes through my sound card (“real” speakers). I want to keep that. What I want to stop is the odd application/error that causes the sound to route through the PC speaker. Why is this so **** difficult? How hard could it be to separate the pcspkr module a la Debian/Ubuntu?

So, I’m guessing no one will be able to help me but I’ve been surprised before.

Is there any way I can disable the PC speaker (but not disable all “bells”) in openSUSE 11.0?

2

Install “Alsa Mixer”; logout, login; open Alsa Mixer; Mute the PC speaker & set all the rest to suit yourself:)

3

Maybe I’m missing something, then.

The “alsamixer” tool doesn’t allow me to control the PC speaker at all. Please elaborate.

4

> The “alsamixer” tool doesn’t allow me to control the PC speaker at all.

hmmmmm…neither can i (on SuSE 10.3)…if ‘snakedriver’ can and we
can’t maybe his soundboard driver allows that, and ours does not ???

mine is an on-motherboard SiS SI7012…yours? snakedrivers?

i do notice that kmix has a volume slider for “PCSpeaker”, and a
(graphical) LED which can be clicked bright or dim…have you played
with that??

DenverD

5

setterm -blength 0

THX. Was searching for that command for ages :slight_smile:

6

There is no PC speaker entry in my KMix.

7

Bump

Any other ideas here?

8

If your PC is a desktop, unplugging the speaker always works.:smiley:

Have you tried the KDE Control Center | Sound & Multimedia | System Bell dialog?

Are yuo sure there’s no PC Speaker in KMix? Fire up the mixer and right-click will list all the channels with tick boxes. Just because you can’t see it in KMix doesn’t mean you can’t hear it.

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Master Mono in kmix did the trick for me, i had to go to settings and configure settings