Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: to beep or not to beep... | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:34:53 -0500 (EST) |
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> On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 06:52:32 +0100 (MET), > Hirling Endre <micimaci@thunder.sch.bme.hu> wrote: > >I've run into the following not severe but annoying problem while using > >Linux at night in a student hostel: I couldn't find a simple way to > >disable all sounds(beeps) that sounds e.g. when I mistype a filename and > >press tab to complete it. > > echo -ne '\033[11;0]' sets bell duration to 0 milliseconds on a text > console. You need to reissue that command after any console reset and > for each text console you have active. xterm has -vb, other X > applications may have to be done separately. The man page for > console-ioctl lists a couple of ioctls for beep, never tried them.
Or wire your PC speaker through the unused TURBO switch.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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