tweaking new dell laptop: "Fn" keys and system beep

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:03:02 -0400
matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:

> Quoting matt.price at utoronto.ca:
> 
> forgot to describethe second issue mentioned in the subject line:  I can't turn
> off the system beep!  so when I'm working at the ocmmand line, there are
> horrible loud beeps every time I press tab, or backspace too far...  I'm really
> a terrible nuisance!  can anyone tell me how to do that?
> 

In an X terminal

xset b off

In a tty

setterm -blength 0

Peter