Re: [linux-audio-user] how to disable system beep on a laptop?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] how to disable system beep on a laptop?
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 02:20:03 EET

Chris Majewski wrote:
>
> Forgot to ask the most important question in my post Re: live
> recording on a laptop. How do I prevent the system bell from going
> through the on-board sound chip into my headphones and blowing my ears
> out? This appears to be independent of the mixer settings, since I can
> still hear the bell in the headphones if I turn down the main
> volume. And yeah, I know about ~/.inputrc, but these are beeps coming
> from RedHat startup scripts, programs, etc.
> This question may be generalized as, "how do I disable the system bell
> altogether, on a laptop?"

i remember having read a "visual bell howto" once. it's about
setting up a visual alarm for hearing-impaired users, but iirc it
also describes how to un-beep your workstation. check at
http://www.linuxdoc.org 

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