what's up with the system bell?

userlander · 2008-10-11 23:44:15

Since a recent update, my system bell is beeping in vim and firefox. If I'm searching for something on the page in firefox and it's not there, it beeps on every single character entered in the search box. Wow, is that annoying!

I have "set bell-style none" in /etc/inputrc. What else could be making it beep?

fwojciec · 2008-10-11 23:52:08

Try rmmod snd_pcsp, and if that helps you can blacklist that module in rc.conf.

creslin · 2008-10-12 00:04:09

If that doesn't work, you might try adding these in ~/.bashrc and ~/.xinitrc respectively:

setterm -blength 0

xset -b

and/or this in rc.conf:

MODULES=( !pcspkr ... )

and/or this if you use alsa:

$ amixer set 'PC Speaker' 0% mute

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-12 00:16:42)

userlander · 2008-10-12 00:50:33

setting xset -b worked - thanks!

weird - pcspkr was blacklisted, but it's loading anyway!

MOD_BLACKLIST=(pcspkr)

# lsmod |grep spk
pcspkr                  4352  0

I suspect some udev change or bug, perhaps.

Last edited by userlander (2008-10-12 00:54:42)

creslin · 2008-10-12 00:56:41

MOD_BLACKLIST is deprecated. You can blacklist it in the MODULES array with an exclamation mark.

I updated the pc speaker wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dis … eaker_beep

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-12 01:38:29)

userlander · 2008-10-12 01:20:32

that explains it - thanks ........ (gotta start paying attention to those .pacnew files )

Last edited by userlander (2008-10-12 01:22:13)

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what's up with the system bell?

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