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System beep + Headphones = HEARING DAMAGE!

Asked by jonibologni

I'm a long time musician and have used Linux for 4 years... Make sure you disable the annoying system beep before using a decent pair of headphones with an Ubuntu machine. Regardless of your volume settings, the beep will be VERY VERY LOUD. I clicked a few times too many, caught about five beeps before I could throw the phones off, and my ears have been ringing hard for two days. I've scheduled an appointment to get them checked out. Seriously, be careful!

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This question was originally filed as bug #322382.

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Lupine (thelupine) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. You might also find some help in the Community help forums: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums. The question, as it appears from your description, would be "Is there a way to turn off the system beep?"

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bixejo (bixo-bixejo) said : 		#2

If you search in ubuntuforums.org, you may find several ways to disconnect the system beep.

I'll drop here a couple of them I selected from the ones I saw:

1) To turn it off permanently (at least until you undo this change):

Add the following line:

blacklist pcspkr

to your file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

2) To turn it off just when you need it (it won't take effect next time you reboot):

Open a terminal and type there the following two lines:

xset b off
xset b 0 0 0

Hope this helps, and also that you feel soon your ears health improving again.

--Bixejo

References:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1050673
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=126746
... and many others you may find there.

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