That won't help silence the "PC Speaker"..the one that beeps, not the one through which you play audio files. James, assuming you're running a GUI, just go into the Mixer, and disable, mute or completely lower the volume for the PC speaker. That *should* (no guarantees, though) do what you want. On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Bob Arendt wrote: > 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, > > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
