Muting PC speaker

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:25:17PM EST, Chris Edwards wrote:
> * Luke Yelavich (themuso at themuso.com) wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:53:53PM EST, Chris Edwards wrote:
> > > I'm having a problem with my Dell Inspiron 600m, where no matter what I
> > > do, I can't seem to mute the PC speaker. That is, I can control PCM etc
> > > fine, but things like the console bell I seem to have no control over
> > > the volume of.
> > 
> > Just remove the pcspkr module I think it is called that anyway.
> 
> Oh, fantastic, that worked. Is there a way to still have the PC speaker
> sound, but have control over the volume? I can't remember whether it
> worked like that when I used the OSS modules before Ubuntu.

I know some soundcards have pc-speaker channels, but not all laptop PC
speakers are connected that way, so I don't think it is possible in your
case.

> Also, what's the best way of making sure the module is never loaded?

Well I don't know how it is loaded, but I presume hotplug. Try adding it
to your /etc/hotplug/blacklist file and see what happens.

Luke