Re: to beep or not to beep...
cbagwell@fujitsu-fnc.com
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:58:29 -0600
> On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Hirling Endre wrote:
> > I didn't want to go deeper in this topic but I've got many replies
> > advising hardware solutions. It would be easy to find out myself, but
> > that's not my machine and it would make the owner angry if I open his
> > machine. So I'm interested in software solutions only :)
>
> dont know wether some1 has coded this up yet, but this small 1 minute
> module should disable >all< beeper sound on the Linux machine. [currently
> anyone can change the bell pitch value back to the original one ...]
>
> Just compile it and do 'insmod nosound.o' as root. Sounds should be back
> working after 'rmmod nosound'.
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I'm not sure why I haven't seen anyone mention this mini-Howto thats
available at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell
It goes into great detail about how to disable the beeps or change them
into visual beeps for both the console and X11. I haven't tried Ingo's
module but if it works it seems to be a very clean way to do it and
perhaps something that could be added to the above mini-Howto.
Chris
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