Loud buzz/beep at errors

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I’ve just installed openSUSE 11.2 on my new Dell Precision laptop. The computer speakers (I think it’s the ordinary ones, not the buzzer, but cannot be sure) make a loud buzzing noise when I do something “wrong”. This may be pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, pressing backspace when there is no character to delete, etc. I’ve managed to remove some of the beeps/buzzes, after doing the following:

  • Add the line “set bell-style none” in /etc/inputrc
  • Remove the kernel module pcspkr
  • Add the line “setterm -blength 0” in ~./profile
  • Muted PC Beep and PCM in the mixer

But still I get a loud buzz when pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (and probably due to other actions as well), even when all sound is muted in the mixer. How can I remove this annoying sound?

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I managed to solve the problem. It looks like I hadn’t muted “PC Beep” in the mixer after all. So muting the PC Beep fixed it!

3

stop pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace unless you really wanna kill
X-Windows and get dumped to a command line interface…

and, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is NOT the best way to do even that!

it is, however, a good way to corrupt some of your files…the BEEP
was there to tell you to BE CAREFUL!

i’d recommend you let it beep.

–
palladium