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: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Sun Dec 23 2001 - 12:49:18 EET

Chris Majewski hat gesagt: // 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?"

How to disable the system bell depends on your graphics environment:

a) X-Windows:
$ xset b off
or put it into your ~/.xsession

b) Console
$ setterm -blength 0
or
$ setterm -blength

This command can go into your ~/.bash_profile.

Hope that helps, 

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