On 2003-06-06 at 17:55:49-0500 Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. :( On a tty, running "setterm -blength 0 -store" will mute the PC speaker. (The "-store" option doesn't persist across reboots, though.) Under GNOME, if I go into Preferences:Keyboard and turn the bell off, that will mute it for most things. Doing those two things will shut the PC speaker up in most situations, but not all. The most glaring example is that I can't find any way to prevent the system from beeping when inserting or removing PCMCIA cards. :( I just got off the phone with Dell. There's currently no way to disable/mute the PC speaker in the BIOS. I requested that such an option be added in a future BIOS revision, so hopefully this will be addressed sooner or later, but in the meantime, I know of no good solution for obtaining a completely silent Latitude D600 laptop. Alas... -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
