X can be configured to use /dev/audio instead of /dev/kbd to generate
the beep though, and then you can control volume or mute with audio
control. In the InputDevice section for your keyboard in xorg.conf,
add:
Option "BellDevice" "/dev/audio"
Won't help when you're in text console though.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Edward Shu wrote:
> Currently, audio driver doesn't manage beep, so you can't
> mute it with volume control.
> Free:
>> hello all,
>> some laptops made a very loud beep, in the terminal with autocolpetion,
>> or when thunderbird receives a new mail. Unfortunately, it seems that
>> this problem is related to something that os2008 (snv 101a) doesn't
>> manage, you can turned the volume down to nothing, this beep is always
>> here, and doesn't exist in Windows.
>> There were differents solutions to manage it, so far:
>> 1 - "xset b off" in the terminal, but you have to type it every time you
>> login
>> 2 - modify KBD_BEEPER_FREQ, CONSOLE_BEEPER_FREQ in /etc/default/kbd to 0
>> 3 - add a startup program in System->Preferences->Sessions that does:
>> "xset b off"
>> 4 - create a /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
>> to disable sound
>> 5 - hack /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default to add "xset b off"
>>
>> before b101a, every solutions worked, but with b101a, the beep is coming
>> back, and i have to use solution 1, others solutions seems insufficient.
>>
>> Is it possible to address this problem definitively when we are on a
>> laptop?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> gerard
>>
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