System beep on invalid input

[CJL]

My system is responding to invalid input (ex using Firefox's find function for a string with 0 results) by outputting a system beep/bell, rather than the sound coming from my computer's speakers. I don't know why its doing this, but I would like it to stop, as the sound of this system beep is irritating and there is no volume control for it.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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# tee /etc/modprobe.d/shutup.conf <<<'blacklist snd-pcsp'
# reboot

[CJL]

It doesn't seem like shutup.conf did anything. Does it require a specific package to be effective?

[cuckooflew]

There are many ways to do what you want, Did you even try doing a search ?
If you copy/paste

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remove beep from debian 10 

into your search engine, you shoudl find the answer to this, if you don't , try a different search engine, also, doing a search using the same text that H_O_A_S posted:

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tee /etc/modprobe.d/shutup.conf <<<'blacklist snd-pcsp'

actually gets results giving details on that.

Does it require a specific package to be effective?

No, but that might be another approach, I mean the 'beep' command,is a package. one could remove it all together, maybe you don't want to do that though...
Try doing some searches, this is to easy, but you have not done any searches, and do not use any logic.

[stevepusser]

It doesn't seem like shutup.conf did anything. Does it require a specific package to be effective?

Did you reboot, or try unloading the offending module manually first to see if that had any effect?

[cuckooflew]

The command posted by HOAS worked for me, it created the file:

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/etc/modprobe.d/shutup.conf 

and "shutup.conf" has the line:

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blacklist snd-pcsp 

in it.
did you look, to see if the file was created or modified as needed ?
You do need to be root to do this, use 'sudo' or 'su -' .

You can also completely disable 'beep' like this:

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# mv /bin/beep ex-beep

Disclaimer, I know this might affect other programs that use 'beep', and they will no longer be able to.
How ever, it is simple if you want to restore 'beep':

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# mv /bin/ex-beep beep

It is because, on older versions of Debian, the 'beep' command was not included as default, in a base install, and if I wanted 'beep', I had to install it. It is not a "essential" package, 'mv' see 'man mv' , just renames it, and does not uninstall or remove it, so then if you want it back it is easy to restore.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

The module name might be wrong (although snd-pcsp also works for me) so perhaps try pcspkr instead.

[cuckooflew]

According to this:https://debian-administration.org/artic ... sole_beeps

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Edit:

"/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist"

and add line:

"blacklist pcspkr"

close editor and reboot

or:

"sudo modprobe -r pcspkr"

and reboot.
 

"pcspkr"

[CJL]

The module name might be wrong (although snd-pcsp also works for me) so perhaps try pcspkr instead.

I can do that.

It is because, on older versions of Debian, the 'beep' command was not included as default, in a base install, and if I wanted 'beep', I had to install it. It is not a "essential" package, 'mv' see 'man mv' , just renames it, and does not uninstall or remove it, so then if you want it back it is easy to restore.

Funny thing is, I checked dpkg and apt. The package 'beep' isn't installed on my system.
And yeah, I ran searches, but not for disabling beep: I thought that it was a bug that 'invalid' inputs were causing beeps, not a feature.
Thanks to both of you for suggesting pcspkr. I'll try it now.

UPDATE: Adding 'blacklist pcspkr' to the shutup.conf file seems to have worked. Thanks!

[Head_on_a_Stick]

The package 'beep' isn't installed on my system

That package is for advanced control of the motherboard speaker, the speaker will still work without the beep package:

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printf "\a"