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beijaflor

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Registered: 2017-07-12

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[Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

After a pacman update a couple of month ago, my system beep ignores my sound volume settings and happily beeps away as loud as it can.

It drives me nuts. I want eternal silence of that beep.

I have done all the tricks recommended in the wiki and in forum post, but nothing does the trick

edit: Solution is in the BIOS.

$cat /etc/inputrc
set bell-style none

$cat /etc/rc.conf
!snd_pcsp
!pcspkr

$cat /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf
blacklist pcspkr
blacklist snd_pcsp

$cat .xinitrc
xset -b
xset b 0 0 0
setterm -blength 0
set bell-style none
amixer set 'Beep' 0% mute

Addtional info

Alsamixer does show the beep at 0 vol and muted.

$lsmod |grep snd
snd_hda_codec_conexant    24576  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    69632  1 snd_hda_codec_conexant
snd_hda_intel          36864  3
snd_hda_codec         106496  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_core           65536  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                86016  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              28672  1 snd_pcm
snd                    69632  14 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_pcm
soundcore              16384  1 snd

For the love of god, please make it stop.

Last edited by beijaflor (2017-08-14 20:09:08)

HiImTye

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Registered: 2012-05-09

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

most pc speakers have (a) removable plug(s) on the motherboard

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

How did you install arch? Out of curiosity, in which wiki page did you see the advice about rc.conf?

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null

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

I'm pretty sure that I've got a BIOS option to disable this hell bell for good on my T520. Have you had a look there?

seth

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

Most important question would be when the beeps occur - the speaker is also used by the board to tell you that there're problems (broken fan, heat, ...) and that is unrelated to the OS.
Also ensure the pcspkr module isn't loaded (lsmod) - in doubt "install .. /bin/false" it.

Finally: is this with headphones (only)?

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beijaflor

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Registered: 2017-07-12

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

Thanks to everybody for looking into this.

@HilmTye: that would ultimately solve the problem but is a bit extreme

@ROOKIE: Normal install. rfconf was in some forum post i guess or the german wiki page.

@null: Jackpot. I enjoy my silence now.

@seth: beep occured on
* closing lit/going to sleep
* open lit/waking up
* low battery

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Turn Off System Beep Lenovo T400

I asked because rc.conf hasn't been used in a long time, at least not if you are using systemd and that wiki page might need to be updated.

Regarding the option in the bios you are lucky, not all laptops have such an option, I'd like that for my E560.

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