Unsettling buzz upon logout

[jaycee]

I have successfully installed LMDE64, and it works flawlessly... except for this sound issue. Whenever I logout/restart/shutdown, my laptop speakers make a (fortunately) brief, loud, shocking buzz. This isn't an issue with LM10, but it is an issue with CrunchBang Linux, so I suspect this could be a Debian problem... in any case, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix it? Thanks in advance for any advice offered for fixing this issue with this otherwise excellent release!

[Yasawas]

I had this at the login screen and shutdown too, really annoying but fortunately simple to fix.

Just install the package "gnome-alsamixer", run it and go to the farthest right channel which is called "PC Beep" and mute it.

[secipolla]

The proper fix would be to edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults

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# Play system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready
/desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds		false

[bobcollard]

This did not work for me.

The proper fix would be to edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults

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# Play system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready
/desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds		false

This did work, thanks Yasawas.

I had this at the login screen and shutdown too, really annoying but fortunately simple to fix.

Just install the package "gnome-alsamixer", run it and go to the farthest right channel which is called "PC Beep" and mute it.

[jaycee]

I had this at the login screen and shutdown too, really annoying but fortunately simple to fix.

Just install the package "gnome-alsamixer", run it and go to the farthest right channel which is called "PC Beep" and mute it.

Thanks for this! Now LMDE64 is perfect!
For the sake of Debian Squeeze, is this an issue I should raise with upstream before their release?

[bobcollard]

For the sake of Debian Squeeze, is this an issue I should raise with upstream before their release?

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I would say yes.

[doktordave]

secipolla's fix does work, but LMDE overwrites the greeter.gconf-defaults on restart. The file doing the overwrites is:

/etc/linuxmint/adjustments/15-gdm3.overwrite

The current fix for this machine, per the /etc/linuxmint/adjustments/readme is to create a .preserve file in /etc/linuxmint/adjustments with the name of the file (or files) that you do NOT want replaced. In my case, the file is:

/etc/linuxmint/adjustments/17-gdm3.preserve

With the contents:

/etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults

After this, changes made to greeter.gconf-defaults stay put.

[Epipsychidion]

Thanks DoktorDave, I'll be sure to try this.