Get a mini-phono jack at an electronics store, and shove it in the headphone slot. Simple visual that it's disabled (the plug is in). Disable the microphone in a similar fashion. Simpler than software!
James Ralston wrote:
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,
