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Disable the System Beep on Ubuntu Edgy

I dislike the system beep on any computer, anywhere, anytime. Here’s how to turn it off in Ubuntu.

 

Go to System \ Preferences \ Sound and click the System Beep tab. 

Uncheck the box, and hit close. Easy as that!

The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. This article was written on 12/24/06 and tagged with: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Tips & Tweaks

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Comments (11)

  1. 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. davg

    yeah, that’s what I want to know

  3. The Geek

    @arsgeek

    Good article.

  4. ADC

    Thank YOU! It was driving me crazy..

  5. 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. 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. asdf

    sudo rmmod pcspkr
    blacklist pcspkr

    \o/

  8. 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. NeptuneRX

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

  10. 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. 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


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