Comments on: Disable the System Beep on Ubuntu Edgy

By: haile

haile — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:31:57 +0000

damn that was great. i hate beeping sound

By: stopka2top

stopka2top — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:48:03 +0000

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

By: Simon Shine

Simon Shine — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:46:21 +0000

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.

By: NeptuneRX

NeptuneRX — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:22:39 +0000

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

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:22:23 +0000

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.

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:01:21 +0000

sudo rmmod pcspkr
blacklist pcspkr

\o/

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:11:29 +0000

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.

By: pasted from somewhere else

pasted from somewhere else — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:29:29 +0000

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

By: ADC

ADC — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:20:42 +0000

Thank YOU! It was driving me crazy..

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:33:34 +0000

@arsgeek

Good article.