disabling speaker

[Kyle O'Donnell]

To actually disable the 'pc speaker':

rmmod pcspkr
or recompile the kernel and remove it.

On 10/27/08, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 07:00:34PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>> Just a few impressions related to the subject.
>>
>> So what am I supposed to do when watching porno movies when all that
>> sound goes also to PC speaker?
>
> If anything other than 'beep' goes to the internal speaker, then
> complain to the idiots that designed the machine.  it is a hardware
> choice, not a software choice, and linux can't do anything about it.
>
> A mixer setting might do something about it though.
>
>> It seems that Linux does not have a way to disable PC speaker!
>
> It does, but it sounds like you don't have a normal pc speaker, but more
> likely one of those speakers hooked up to the onboard audio the way some
> HP and compaq business desktops like to do (after all it gives you some
> sound without having to buy a set of speakers).
>
>> OK, there is one way I implemented: I opened computer and pulled out
>> speaker cables from where they are connected. It works! ;)
>
> Very effective method.
>
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