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.