Turn of ctrl+alt+backspace sound

When I hit ctrl+alt+backspace I get an extremely loud sound that practically blows out my speakers and my eardrums. How can I turn off that sound or at least reduce the volume substantially?

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:26 +0000, TheBlackCat wrote:
> When I hit ctrl+alt+backspace I get an extremely loud sound that
> practically blows out my speakers and my eardrums. How can I turn off
> that sound or at least reduce the volume substantially?

I’m going to take a guess that the loud sound is coming through
the PC speaker. Simple solution: blacklist it.

Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add a line:
blacklist pcspkr

See if that works for you.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Option         "ZapWarning" "off"

instead of “on” .

HTH .

> When I hit ctrl+alt+backspace I get an extremely loud sound that
> practically blows out my speakers and my eardrums. How can I turn off
> that sound or at least reduce the volume substantially?

i think the best question to ask and get answered is why you have to
use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in the first place?

i think i used last year, once…if you have stability problems
requiring you to use C+A+B, then you need to find and fix THAT problem…

on the other hand if you are using it instead of clicking “change
user” (or whatever), why?


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