Re: patch to turn internal speaker on/off

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 07:41:16 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Keith Owens wrote:

>"Ryan Gordon" <ryan_gordon@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>So I've got some kernel patches to disable beeps and blips from the internal
>>speaker.
>
>What is wrong with "setterm -blength 0" and "xset -b off"?

It doesn't prevent someone from using the speaker. It just stops
programs that do a ^G from beeping. Programs and scripts are
free to call setterm again and change the blength as they want.

A kernel option, makes for a completely silent PC speaker. Aside
from accessing the ioports directly perhaps.

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