Comments (14)

1. March 1, 2007
   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
   davg

   yeah, that’s what I want to know

3. March 13, 2007
   The Geek

   @arsgeek

   Good article.

4. May 16, 2007
   ADC

   Thank YOU! It was driving me crazy..

5. December 8, 2007
   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
   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
   asdf

   sudo rmmod pcspkr
   blacklist pcspkr

   \o/

8. November 1, 2008
   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
   NeptuneRX

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

10. January 29, 2009
    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
    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
    haile

    damn that was great. i hate beeping sound

13. December 19, 2010
    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
    Tarot

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

    muy ùtil. Gracias.