[Solved] Turn off the Start-Up Beep - Gnome

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi all,

Newly installed LMDE on a laptop and everytime the computer starts, it has an annoying beep, seemingly to let you know that it's ready to be logged into. How can I stop this please?

Thanks

[HughT]

Hi WhatUsernameIsFree?, if the beep is heard when you turn on your PC it's the BIOS setting, since Mint hasn't even started at that point. If it's heard later when Grub starts then you can stop it by commenting out (adding a #) the GRUB_INIT_TUNE option in Grub.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi,

No, it's much later, after the BIOS screen, after GRUB, it's literally the moment that the Gnome screen lists the user names to be able to log in as, so it's definitely Gnome.

Thanks

[xircon]

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sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer && gnome-alsamixer

Mute speaker/pc speaker (it's name keeps changing ).

Steve

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, that turns off *all* the computer sound, so we can't watch movies etc.

[xircon]

Strange, can you post a picture of gnome-alsamixer settings e.g.:

GNOME ALSA Mixer_100.png (20.19 KiB) Viewed 1654 times

My sound was muted when this was taken.

Steve

[squeezy]

Try running these commands in a terminal:

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echo "blacklist pcspkr" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
modprobe -r pcspkr

Reboot, you should not hear the beep at the login screen. Seems to work for most people.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi,

My alsamixer for reference.


I'll try those commands and get back to you. What does it do?

[HughT]

I am using Mint 11, so can't be sure if it's the same with LMDE, but the log-in sound can be deleted in the Preferences>Start-Up Applications menu. Just un-check the Gnome Log-in Sound option. If you don't have that perhaps you can edit the sound file in a terminal. In Mint 11 the command is at /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login".

[cecar]

Hi,

My alsamixer for reference.


I'll try those commands and get back to you. What does it do?

Unmute speaker and you should have sound again.

[squeezy]

I'll try those commands and get back to you. What does it do?

Makes it so the module for the speaker driver doesn't load.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

But with the speaker muted in gnome-alsamixer I have no sound at all. Should I still try those commands? How would I undo them if it removes all the sound?

[cecar]

But with the speaker muted in gnome-alsamixer I have no sound at all. Should I still try those commands? How would I undo them if it removes all the sound?

In gnome alsamixer. Unmute speaker and mute Beep.

[DrHu]

You should be able to stop the pcspkr funtion starting for the desktop, look at the services or applications that run and edit for your own preference
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowTo ... SystemBell

You should have to mute anything, however I usually use headphones so all my sound output goes to a headphone, not a speaker
--not sure that sending output to a headphone would prevent that sound, since the system sounds functions have usually relied on the PC Speaker, from the motherboard, mainly for BIOS beeps etc..

Stopping pcspkr will prevent the system sound coming from that source (pcspker) ..

And there are some other ways of doing it as well, but blacklisting is probably easiest, at least for Ubuntu/Mint distributions..

[squeezy]

But with the speaker muted in gnome-alsamixer I have no sound at all. Should I still try those commands? How would I undo them if it removes all the sound?

I'm not sure how it would work if you use the built in speaker when you're watching movies, etc. I know it cured my beep at login, but I use external speakers on a desktop for all my listening.

The commands I posted do the same thing that the link DrHu provided does. As with anything in computers, there's more than one to to accomplish the same thing.

[melbo]

This fixed my similar problem:
viewtopic.php?f=191&t=94514

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

This fixed my similar problem:
viewtopic.php?f=191&t=94514

This solved it.

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echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Something similar was posted earlier, but this happened to be the next thing on list of things to try.

Thanks!