constant beeping upon sign in

You could remove the pcspk module if it is the problem.

Go into a terminal and type:

      $ sudo rmmod pcspkr

This will only affect your current session. If it does help you can add it to your '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist'

      $ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist # if this file is empty it might be 'blacklist.conf'

      add 'blacklist pcspkr' to the end of the file then save.

see: http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-turn-off-virtual-console-beep

Hope this helps :)

I tried using that technique to fix my problem. I feel like a newb here because when I type that into the terminal it asked me for a password I tried my user password because that is what it was for everything else but it did not allow me to type anything in there. I tried using the command a second time and it told me:
ERROR: Module pcspkr does not exist in /proc/modules

I think that I should probably amend the title of this to: Constant beeping as soon as it boots to the sign in screen (I just rebooted from windows because I am dual booting) and I listened a little more closely and it seemed like the beeping started as soon as I got passed the Ubuntu screen and into the login portion. The beeping started out quite loud and gradually got a bit quieter but by the time I was logged in it got to a somewhat quite beep but it is still constant. I have tried listening to music in a music player and also gotten on youtube.com and pandora.com to try out listening to music and nothing gets by the beeping.

Also for further reference how do I figure out what that sudo password would be? hopefully this explains a little more in-depth on what is happening. Once again thanks in advance to any help that I can get. :)

Please tell have you some microphone active on this pc...?

Thank you

Not that I am aware of. I just checked my volume control in the upper right hand corner and there is nothing in there saying anything about a mic in there.

I had the same sudo problems, until I realised that when it asks for a pass word it *masks* what you are typing. So when it asks for your password just type it in then hit enter.

Let us know how everything turns out!

You could also use gksudo instead of sudo. Its a GI to sudo.

Ok so I just tried running it it didn't work I tried running it a couple times in different ways and they didn't work as well
agarrison@ubuntu:~$ sudo rmmod pcspkr
[sudo] password for agarrison:
agarrison@ubuntu:~$ $ sudo rmmod pcspkr
bash: $: command not found
agarrison@ubuntu:~$ sudo rmmod pcspkr
ERROR: Module pcspkr does not exist in /proc/modules
agarrison@ubuntu:~$ gksudo rmmod pcspkr
/home/agarrison/.themes/TerminalGreen/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:47: error: unexpected keyword `class', expected character `{'
ERROR: Module pcspkr does not exist in /proc/modulesagarrison@ubuntu:~$
those are what I tried. The first gave me no error but didn't go past that. I think what I'm going to do is reinstall ubuntu and see if that fixes it.

Ok I just reinstalled ubuntu and it is still doing the same thing. i just retried the sudo rmmod pcspkr command and it did the same thing just went to the next line. so I'm thinking that the command worked, but it wasn't the solution to my problem even after the reinstall it did not work. I wish this annoying beeping problem would fix itself lol. But I'll keep trying any suggestions that anyone has, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get this working because I would like Ubuntu to be my main OS. Thanks again for everyones help so far :)

Question:

Is it a constant tone - beeeeeeeeeep
or is it a frequency - bip bip bip bip bip?

it is the latter of the two

and it goes pretty fast. Maybe half a second between each.

This happens right from the moment you switch the machine on? or just when Ubuntu starts? If it starts right from the moment you switch the machine on then it might be the bios complaining about something. It often does this if a keyboard is "missing". For me i had to change from a Usb keyboard to one with a little purple plug (Ps/2). I agree with Marcobra that it does sound like the little pc-speaker rather than your main speakers? If so you might be able to at least disable it in the bios until you can find some way of fixing the problem. I haven't got a proper guide for that but this one shows a bit about bios's - take care though if you're not sure about what you're doing with bioses as they are fairly critical and almost impossible to fix if it all goes wrong
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

Have you tried the LiveCd of another distro to see if it happens with other OS's? Maybe try a non-debian based one. I think Wolvix might be a good one to use from the Cd without installing as it's fast to boot up and is Slackware based which is very different from Debian.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

 It isn't when the computer starts just when I get to the Ubuntu login screen. I'm running a laptop right now so I sadly don't have much of an option for my keyboard. I'm like 99.99% sure that it is the speakers because it comes out of the speaker system on my laptop and when I plug in headphones it goes through the headphones. Is Wolvix very difficult to learn? I've found learning on ubuntu very simple only took me a couple of days of playing around on the internet to figure most the stuff out. I'm no expert by any means but I feel I learned it quite fast I could definately try another os out if it may fix my problem.

It looks more like a soundcard driver problem - it's being unable to stop playing last played portion of a sound.

sirenia4evr, do you hear drums or anything meaningful before that beep sound ? And what happens when you start any music or video ?

P.S. To disable GDM login-screen beep you can try (it will disable that beep, but not solve the hardware/driver problem itself):
1) edit your gdm.conf file - add 'SoundOnLogin=false' to it
2) or run 'gksudo gdmsetup' and see the "Accessibility" tab for sound options.

K the driver was possibility that I had thought about but I wasn't sure if that was it. The only "drum" type sound that I can think of is when I have my headphones plugged, and I say with my headphones plugged in because I cannot hear it over my speakers in and it gets to the Ubuntu bar load screen. The only way that I can think to describe it is its like the sound is "initiating?" It sounds more like a loud thud then a drum type sound but they are closely related I guess. I tried looking for a driver for my specific soundcard but I couldn't seem to find one. Is there a specific place that has a quite a few sound card drivers, so I can maybe give trying that out?

I think that there is no place where you can find other drivers for this soundcard than built-in into the Linux kernel. So, maybe you'd try Ubuntu 32-bit - it's usually much easier to deal with it for a newbie than with a 64-bit version (especially on a hardware concern).

P.S. And what about playing songs and videos after booting up ?

Sorry, ignore my last post. It's not a hardware issue and it's not the bios complaining, from what you've been saying.

I didn't realise you were using 64bit Ubuntu. I have a 64bit machine and had a lot of troubles with 64bit version of Ubuntu too - so i put the 32bit version on and suddenly everything worked really well. It definitely runs a lot faster on my 64bit machine than it used to on my 32bit machine.

With many OS's you need to run 64bit versions in order to use all the Cpu's you have - in linux even the most basic versions already have full support for this multi-threading and many other features that you'd normally need a 64bit version for. Also some OS's need a lot of Ram even for the basics but linux is much more efficient and seldom needs even 1Gb of Ram. I really recommend using 32bit Ubuntu and see how much better it is for you too.

You can install using the "Manual Partitioning" rather than "Guided" and just make sure that none of your partitions get formatted. This should leave all your data and settings untouched but i would still make sure you back-up all your data - just saving your entire "/home" folder to external drive or dvd's or something usually makes sure you get everything. In "Manual Partitioning" make sure all the boxes in the column "Format Partition?" are UNticked. Also set the Ubuntu partition's "Mount Point" to "/" as / is the root of the file-system - all the other folders grow from the /
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Ok I'll give the 32-bit version of Ubuntu and see how that works out for me. Was running a 64-bit because that was what my current OS is running so I figured that that would work for it as well. Didn't realise there was that big of a difference in compatability issues between the 64-bit and 32-bit. So I'll give that a shot and let you guys know what happens. Thanks for all the help so far everybody :)

So I just got the 32-bit Ubuntu installed now and the same problem is occuring. I'm so confused :(

Ok I am mistaken. What is happening now is: I get into pandora.com (internet radio website) and also youtube.com. It is very weird the sound now plays music but it sounds sort of like a skipping cd.

ok and I just checked with an audio cd and it was doing the same like "skipping cd" noise so I'm thinking that it has to be something with the driver.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-673943.html i found this site on the internet and was wondering how i might go about trying this out.

I cannot help you with this issue another way than suggesting to try to switch from Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) 32-bit to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) 32-bit. It's older but usually a little bit more stable in the hardware issues. And it is LTS (Long Term Support) version, so it'll be supported for a longer period than a newer 8.10 version (8.04 - 2 years of support left, where as 8.10 support will now continue for only a year or so).

I suppose, that most of such sound problems are because of some regression in Linux kernel - switching to older ones may help (and sometimes switching to newer ones helps also :) ). The other system parts to blame are ALSA, OSS and PulseAudio (these three are sound supporting subsystems in Ubuntu). But I think that it is mostly of Linux Kernel and some misconfiguration issues of your hardware (DMI, PCI, IRQ, etc. :) ).

P.S. It's probably a bug.

Well I guess thats how the cookie crumbles. I'll give 8.04 a try probably later this week, I'm sadly getting kind of frustrated with it so I'm going to take a break for a couple days. But I'll post here if it occurs with 8.04 as well if not, I guess I'll just have to find something else. maybe I'll go check out some of the forums and try to find a different OS that is good for beginners that I can try like Tom suggested a couple days ago. Thanks for all the help everyone it has been much appreciated :)

Reading this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/290204 please try:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

gconf-editor

search the

/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/bell_mode

set it to 'off' rather than 'on'

Hope this helps

I was only suggesting a 'quickly try booting up with the Cd without installing anything' approach and just to see if you could get sound from that. We call it a "LiveCd session" and it can be useful to help diagnose and/or fix a problem (many other uses too).

I'm not surprised you need a break from all this. I'm impressed you've stuck with it this long. The Wolvix Hunter Cd has some good retro-style arcade games and the "crossed spanner & screwdriver" gets to a tool to help fix sound in Wolvix but watch out the volume might be quite high!

Marcobra's answer are always worth a good try.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I am having the exact same problem and I have been searching forever for an answer. Nothing seems to work. I tried Marcobra's idea on the 'bell' thing but nothing changed when I switched the value to off. I also can't get any audio otherwise, which is what I have also been trying to fix (no youtube, nothing).

I just got this computer and put Ubuntu on it on the advice of a friend. Now nothing works and I am wishing I'd kept the windows software! But now I'm stuck so I need this to work.

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Is it 32bit Desktop Edition Ubuntu 8.10? Some poeple have recently found that installing the 8.04 and upgrading to 8.10 seems to solve new problem's in the recent installer. A bit baffling but it seemed to work. Obviously we would want to help you backup you data and try to prevent any losses.

Please re-post this as a new question so that people at the front desk see it and are able to try helping you on your particular hardware which may have slightly different issues then the person in this thread. There are sometimes what seem to be insurmountable problems in the first few days of using a radically new OS but these seldom turn out to be half as difficult to solve as we thought when we were new too.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
Please try posting each problem as a separate question so that we can help sort out one thing per thread.

You may want to post in a link to this question so that people get an idea of what might have been tried already so here's the link to this thread
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/64082

Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom :)

Thanks. I started a new question and linked to this thread.

Thanks DB, looks like you've got one of our top experts at this helping you there already :)

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/65812
Just thought i'd add a link to there too.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Hi I have the same problems as sirenia4evr. I have a HP Dv7 Intel blue Ray. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. Have this Drumming should coming out my PC speakers. The drumming starts at Log in window. I searched everywhere on the net and found no solutions. I have installed the 9.04 32 bit and 8.10 32 bit etc. With no luck.
Here is some of my info
snd_hda_intel 557492 4
snd_pcm_oss 52352 0
snd_mixer_oss 24960 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 99336 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 11524 0
snd_seq_oss 41984 0
snd_seq_midi 15744 0
snd_rawmidi 33920 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 16512 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 66272 7 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 34064 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 16276 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 78792 16 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 16800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18704 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

also I can turned down the drumming sound manully in alsamixer by the Font tab
 Card: HDA Intel │
│ Chip: Generic 10de ID 6 │
│ View: [Playback] Capture All │
│ Item: Front [dB gain=-2.25, -2.25

I really hope you guys are working on this I really want to keep using Ubuntu.

Please re-post this as a new question. Launchpad doesn't have a way of dealing with old questions. Please try to keep the question brief and maybe provide a link back to here (where you posted the details)
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Here's the link back to this thread
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/64082

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)