I just received a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. Unlike previous Latitude laptops I've used, this one doesn't have any option in the BIOS to set the PC speaker volume. As a result, when I do things like insert or remove PCMCIA cards, the machine beeps at me. This sucks, because in most situations (e.g., meetings or presentations), I want my laptop to be COMPLETELY SILENT. Is there any way to tell the kernel to never, ever send anything to the PC speaker? (I have a service request open with Dell about this issue, but I have a suspicion they're going to tell me something like "we don't support Linux on this laptop, and in Windows you can disable the speaker".) Thanks, -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
