Re: Annoying beeps

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:59 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I recently installed a new system and got almost deaf by my laptop's
> annoying beep of the pc speaker. There are a lot of ways to disable
> it, but shouldn't this get fixed in the right way?
> 
> I can't help but image showing a brand new Linux system to a bunch of
> people with Compiz, and all these video and audio capabilities,
> virtualizing Windows and what not, but hit backspace in the wrong
> location and BEEP! Straight to the 80's.
> 
> Shouldn't something in GNOME map XBeep or whatever to something more
> appropriate?

rmmod pcspkr

Cheers