Re: PC Speaker cannot be disabled
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 00:31:07 +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use Debian on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. By default, the laptop
> produces a very loud, ugly, and annoying beep when, for example, you use the
> tab completion in the console, etc. I used to disable the beep by adding
> "blacklist pcspkr" in /etc/modprob.d/blacklist in Etch. It worked in Etch
> and even until recently in Lenny (I have now the most recent snapshot of
> Lenny). But this is not working in Lenny anymore. I use "lsmod | grep
> pcspkr" to see if the module has been loaded but it is not there. When I
> used "modprobe pcspkr -v" it says that the module has been loaded (only
> shows a path to the module file with no errors printed) but "lsmod..." does
> not show anything loaded.
>
> Can anyone help me disable the PC speaker like before? It really is
> annoying. Thanks in advance.
Check if ALSA lists the PC speaker as a card:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xdfdfc000 irq 16
1 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp
Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
On my Sid system this started when I upgraded to kernel 2.6.26; like
you, I suddenly got the beep again even though the pcspkr module was not
loaded. I could silence the PC speaker by running
alsamixer -c1
and muting the "PC Speak" control. (Move to the control with the cursor
keys, press "M" to mute, ESC to exit. The new setting should be saved
and restored automatically across reboots by /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.)
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