[Systemd] Disable pesky warning beep :(

.:B:. · 2012-08-17 22:29:22

So. After the devs decided that they'd move to systemd, I dove in and installed systemd on my laptop. Configuration is nearly done, but one thing keeps bugging me: that annoying system beep. I thought pcspkr had gotten loaded somehow, but lsmod says it's not. Yet I get tons of those annoying beeps (e.g. if Firefox wants me to know that some word I'm searching for on a web page is not there).

So how do I turn this off with systemd?

I feel like I'm back running on a Pentium, somehow. Cue Weird Al Yankovich.

Last edited by .:B:. (2012-08-17 22:30:45)

ataraxia · 2012-08-17 23:37:55

Is it actually ringing the system bell? I don't know how you turned it off previously, but I'd suggest either "xset -b" in .xinitrc, or just muting the ALSA control called "Beep" (if you have it).

.:B:. · 2012-08-18 09:24:22

Thanks, will check that. Previously just blacklisting/unloading the pcspkr module did the trick.

Edit: xset -b seems to work. I wonder how switching to systemd causes that behaviour... I just muted the Beep control as well, going to see how that plays out.

I did see that stuff in the wiki, but I figured since it had been disabled before, it wouldn't work. Should have tried .

cfr · 2012-08-19 21:02:03

I found that

setterm -blength 0

was more effective than xset -b. However, it doesn't kill the insanely annoying visual bell in screen.

Dolmio · 2012-10-09 21:20:36

Same thing happend to me after switching to systemd. Annoying, loud beeps all the time (including at boot).

amixer set 'Beep' 0% mute

did the trick for me. No more annoying beeps but the sound still works in xfce :-)

graysky · 2012-10-14 10:47:30

Gone are the days of blacklisting pcspkr I guess

On my laptop, in multi-user not graphical I still get a loud as hell beep.

Last edited by graysky (2012-10-14 10:48:10)

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[Systemd] Disable pesky warning beep :(

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