Kernel 2.6.18-1.2200 beeps too often

[Oisin Feeley]

On 10/18/06, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:47 +0100, Leo wrote:
> > Following the kernel update in FC5, a few people (including me) have
> > noticed that their computers beep almost everywhere.
> >
> > The culprit is kernel module pcspkr, which is loaded in Kernel
> > 2.6.18-1.2200.
>
> I noted that this can be alleviated by excuting 'xset b off' ... This
> seems to be a new 'feature' of this kernel ... anyone else think it's
> annoying or is it useful to others?

And if you're using the console only then 'setterm -blength 0' does the trick.
Oisin