[Sound] Disable Pc / Motherboard Speaker

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#1

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)?

#2

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

#3

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

#4

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,usbhid,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.

#5

To disable the speaker globally this worked for me:


xset b off 
xset b 0 0 0