Turn off that pc speaker in Debian!

Only a short post.

The ThinkWiki has a great little write-up on disabling the pc speaker device under Debian linux. I thought I’d just shortcut the details in this post.

# Remove the pc speaker module
$ sudo modprobe -r pcspkr snd_pcsp

Remove the pc speaker permanently

# the following lines need to be added to
# the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# make sure you find out which device you actually have

blacklist pcspkr
blacklist snd_pcsp

Anyway, these are just the details to disable the device. The ThinkWiki article has some other ideas also on how to make the bell tone tolerable. Not for me though. I can’t stand it.