How to turn off the annoying system beep in linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

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By arsgeek

If you’re like me, you start getting real annoyed, real fast at the system beep that insists on beeping far to often. This system beep emits not from your laptop speakers, but from that deep, dank recesses of ancient pc technology that is a little speaker designed only to beep annoyingly. Short of ripping it out, here’s how to disable it.

You can disable this by editing a file and entering two simple lines.

gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

And then add:

#silly speaker beep

blacklist pcspkr

Save your file and the speaker beep will be gone when you reboot.

If you don’t want to wait until a reboot, simply type:

sudo rmmod pcspkr

Comments

hyun 3 years ago

good Tip! I love it

Daniel 3 years ago

Thanks a lot. my wife can now sleep in peace.

PolderBoy 2 years ago

Since after ignoring xorg.conf, xset now also seems not longer used in Debian (Squeeze), I was afraid to have to learn to install a source-based system and compile X myself.

This solution saved me from all that trouble.

Thanks!

Dwarf2000 3 months ago

Ugh, finally! Thanks a bunch.

usf 2 months ago

Thanks!

nicodemus 8 days ago

On Linux Mint (LMDE), even after removing the module the beep was still present. Had to mute "Beep" in alsamixer for it to dissapear.

Cheers!

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