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Disable PC-Speaker

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Sometimes it’s good to have the PC-Speaker enable, but for the most of the time it is just annoying and can drive you crazy, this tip will show you how to disable it. This has been tested on ubuntu, openSUSE & FreeBSD, if you know of other system this works on let me know.

On Linux(ubuntu, openSUSE):
1. Open up a console window and edit blacklist file.
$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

2. Add following to the end of the file and then save.
# Blacklisting pcspkr
blacklist pcspkr

3. Restart the computer.

On Unix(FreeBSD):
1. Run in console.
$ su root -c ‘ee /etc/rc.conf’

2. Add the following at the end of the file and save.
# Disable pc-speaker
modprobe -r pcspkr

3. Restart computer.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Desktop, Server, Ubuntu, Unix/Linux, openSUSE. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Disable PC-Speaker”

  1. MonkeeSage Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    You can also edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line “blacklist pcspkr” to prevent it from ever being loaded.

  2. soulskater Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    Hi.

    True that is also an alternative, thanks for sharing “MonkeeSage”

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    October 23rd, 2009 at 4:38 am

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  4. anhvuitinh Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    I don’t have root access to change /etc folder. Is there an alternative way to turn off the beep? I can only write to /home/mylogin folder. Thanks.

  5. soulskater Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 12:07 am

    Hi

    I’m not sure that it is possible, but I will look into it.

    So stay tuned…

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