{"id":145,"date":"2009-12-18T22:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-12-18T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T02:22:34","slug":"how-to-take-out-the-system-built-in-beeper-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/12\/18\/how-to-take-out-the-system-built-in-beeper-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to take out the system built-in beeper in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually the system beeper (not to be confused with speakers) can be a rather useful tool in informing or alerting the user. Sometimes however, the beeper can be just plain annoying, especially if you already know what you are doing. For example, it is very annoying to have a laptop suddenly start beeping in the middle or a presentation or on a subway train. Here&#8217;s how to disable it to avoid such embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To permanently disable:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Execute in a shell (Applications &gt;&gt; Terminal):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">echo -e &quot;\\nblacklist pcspkr\\c&quot; &gt;&gt; \/etc\/modprobe.d\/blacklist.conf<\/pre>\n<p><strong>To temporarily disable:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Execute in a shell (Applications &gt;&gt; Terminal):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">sudo modprobe -r pcspkr<\/pre>\n<p>If you found this article helpful or interesting, please help Compdigitec spread the word. Don\u2019t forget to <a title=\"Subscribe to Compdigitec Labs\" href=\"\/labs\/feed\/\">subscribe to Compdigitec Labs<\/a> for more interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually the system beeper (not to be confused with speakers) can be a rather useful tool in informing or alerting the user. Sometimes however, the beeper can be just plain annoying, especially if you already know what you are doing. For example, it is very annoying to have a laptop suddenly start beeping in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[317,107,611,612,862,613,610,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}