From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 25 15:52: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cs.bu.edu (CS.BU.EDU [128.197.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8128D37B408 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csa.bu.edu (evms@csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8PMpwA20632 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:51:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evms@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f8PMpt812879; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:51:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Sarmiento Message-ID: <15281.2699.689111.711321@csa.bu.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:51:55 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop speaker question In-Reply-To: <200109252128.OAA11864@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <3BB0F414.DAE96F7A@linuxcare.com> <200109252128.OAA11864@mina.soco.agilent.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for all your help. I took Mr. Baldwin's advise and made the beep function return 0. but xset b off also works. :-) Thanks, Darryl Okahata writes: > Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > > > Is there a way I could mute the speaker? There is no /dev/speaker, > > > and speaker is not in my kernel conf. > > > > On a flight to the east coast I was doing the same thing and used a > > "screen" session to work out of, it apparently disabled the > > sytem_beeps. > > ... only if visual bell is enabled. I think the default for > screen(1) is for the visual bell to be disabled (according to the man > page, at least). > > Alternatively, doesn't "xset b off" work? > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@soco.agilent.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message