PC-Speaker is hurting my ears :-(

Hi!
Some error-sounds is played trough PC-Speaker and not trough normal sound-device. ASLA-setup have separate volumes for ALSA-sounds and PC-speakers. But the error-sound in PC-speaker is horrible and hurt my ears.

Not many applications play sound trough PC-speaker, but IBM Lotus Notes Client do this everytime i receive new message!

Earlier i could turn down the volume, but now it doesnt matter is a Mute PC-speakers the sound is still at maximum. I think this happens after KDE4.2

How do i fix this?

Try this in a terminal:

su -c ‘rmmod pcspkr’

After that start Notes and report back what happens. If sounds via PC speaker stop after the command, you can add “blacklist pcspkr” to the file /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf

Please get back to us with results

Hi!
Nope it didn’t work! It comes a high frequence-sound that make me jump in the chair.
Its like a powerful sound-pulse at 8000Hz.

Its very annoying!

What else can i do?

RS

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 13:06 +0000, ronnys wrote:
> Hi!
> Nope it didn’t work! It comes a high frequence-sound that make me jump
> in the chair.
> Its like a powerful sound-pulse at 8000Hz.
>
> Its very annoying!
>
> What else can i do?

I hope you rebooted after doing the recommendation below.

It’s possible that you’re experiencing feedback since the speaker
can also be a mic. So… you can try bringing up a mixer and killing
the mic input (zero it or disable it).

The info below is the usual answer to get rid of the PC speaker.

>
> RS
>
> Knurpht;2033621 Wrote:
> > Try this in a terminal:
> >
> > su -c ‘rmmod pcspkr’
> >
> > After that start Notes and report back what happens. If sounds via PC
> > speaker stop after the command, you can add “blacklist pcspkr” to the
> > file /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
> >
> > Please get back to us with results
>
>

Try this:

xset b off

Now i havent heard any more painfull sounds, so it seems to work.
What does this command do?

RS

xset command customizes your X-Windows environment.
b off - turns the bell off

P.S. man xset