Comments (14)

1. March 1, 2007 12:45 pm
   

   mrli

   I think this only disables the annoying beep within Gnome, but how can I also disable it in all(Ctrl+Alt+F1(~6)) terminals altogether ?

2. March 7, 2007 6:01 pm
   

   davg

   yeah, that’s what I want to know

3. March 13, 2007 3:33 pm
   

   The Geek

   @arsgeek

   Good article.

4. May 16, 2007 3:20 pm
   

   ADC

   Thank YOU! It was driving me crazy..

5. December 8, 2007 1:29 pm
   

   pasted from somewhere else

   sudo rmmod pcspkr

   The place to blacklist modules is /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, so open and edit this file and add at the end of the file:

   blacklist pcspkr

   That’s it, no more beep beep beeep going around.

   Hope this will help handle your virtual console in a greater way ;)

6. October 31, 2008 5:11 pm
   

   Colin

   I think this only disables the annoying beep within Gnome, but how can I also disable it in all(Ctrl+Alt+F1(~6)) terminals altogether ?

   Add “setterm -bfreq 0″ to your ~/.profile or /etc/profile.

7. November 1, 2008 5:01 am
   

   asdf

   sudo rmmod pcspkr
   blacklist pcspkr

   \o/

8. November 1, 2008 5:22 pm
   

   Owen

   mrli – best to leave it enabled outside Gnome, unfortunately, as particular combinations of system beeps can actually be trying to tell you what the problem is when your computer is *seriously* broken.

9. November 27, 2008 10:22 am
   

   NeptuneRX

   Thanks for this post, that blasted beep has caused more problems for me then I have time to tell.

10. January 29, 2009 3:46 pm
    

    Simon Shine

    As “asdf” points out, to properly disable the pc speaker throughout the system in Ubuntu:

    Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add a line, “blacklist pcspkr”

    Going “sudo rmmod pcspkr” after every boot is bothersome.

11. March 12, 2009 8:48 am
    

    stopka2top

    It`s work on Debian Lenny 5.0
    modprobe -l |grep pcsp
    lsmod | grep pcsp
    Add in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist founded variables
    for examlpe
    blacklist pcspkr
    blacklist snd_pcsp

12. July 30, 2009 6:31 pm
    

    haile

    damn that was great. i hate beeping sound

13. December 19, 2010 11:37 pm
    

    zigzag

    Colin’s suggestion with …
    “Add “setterm -bfreq 0″ to your ~/.profile or /etc/profile.”

    Works best! Works on most linux distros (that i’ve tried).

14. April 3, 2011 6:17 am
    

    Tarot

    Buen blog, buen post, documentado y bien escrito, un gusto leerlo. Ademàs con informaciòn

    muy ùtil. Gracias.