did you notice that the PC speaker does not work on Fedora?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:23:14 -0800, Florin Andrei
<florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:45 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:49:24 -0800, Florin Andrei
> > <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123927
> >
> > And I'm glad that it is! I always hated those stupud beeps. But I
> > didn't really notice it's absence in FC3, maybe because I cut the wire
> > to the PC speaker about four operating systems ago...
> 
> No need to cut any wires.
> Assuming the module works properly and it's loaded automatically, it's
> trivial to disable the speaker: either mute it with alsamixer, or do
> this:
> 
> echo "install pcspkr /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> The PC speaker is a traditional feed-back mechanism, it's probably
> better to not disable it unless there's a good reason to.
> 
> --
> Florin Andrei

No 'good reason' other than that I hate it. It startles me. And I
found that I swicth operating systems about once a year, so why even
bother with it? The only time I want to hear sound on my computer is
when I: 1) listen to music, 2) watch a movie, 3) talk on skype. I
especially hate webpages with embedded music in them, or flash /
shockwave files on websites that make noise. I haven't found a way to
tell firefox DONT ever make noise, EVEN when flash tells you to do
sol.

Dotan Cohen
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