Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:16:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

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>> > > > Hack gdm? :p
>> > > 
>> > > Ha! :-)
>> > > 
>> > > But this is indeed something coming from GMD (or from the GNOME
>> > > side) because I get no beep when I fall into "init 1" and run from
>> > > there "shutdown -r now".
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> For my GNOME2 GDM3, instead of GDM is installed by default. When I mark
>> 'gdm' to install by Synaptic, I got that 'gdm3' should be removed and
>> 'libdmx1' should be installed. Backup your Debian and test if GDM does
>> or doesn't solve the issue ;). I suspect you've got GDM3 installed
>> too?!

Of course. Since squeeze gdm3 is the default, I guess.

No, I'm not going back to GDM2 :-)

>> Next time I shout down, I'll take care, if it's the same here on a
>> tower PC. Sorry, but I don't like to shut down or restart now.
> 
> root@debian:/home/spinymouse# modprobe -l | grep pcsp
> kernel/drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.ko
> kernel/sound/drivers/pcsp/snd-pcsp.ko 
> root@debian:/home/spinymouse# echo -e "\a" 
> root@debian:/home/spinymouse# modprobe pcspkr
> root@debian:/home/spinymouse# echo -e "\a"
> 
> No sound.

Beep should work by default given that you're not using a notebook.
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón