Problems killing pcspkr for good.

[Kats]

So, I got a new graphics card, mainboard and ram and could finally build a pc that WORKS with linux. The old workstation for somewhat reasons randomly locked up in X without any errors in the logs or anything. My best guess is faulty memory or faulty memory on the graphics card. ANYWAY, new pc, fresh good Lenny-installation.

Most stuff went smooth, but I can't seem to kill the pc-speaker at start. I can without problems do a modprobe -r pcspkr, and the pc-speaker shuts up untill I reboot. So I figured the best way to kill it for "good" inside linux is to blacklist it. But, that don't work. If I do, the pc-speaker will still make friggin annoying sounds in terminals and when gdm loads, but I won't be able to modprobe -r it. Untill I remove the blacklist and reboots and modprobes it.

Any good suggestions before I physically rip it out of my box?

[Telemachus]

Try blacklist snd_pcsp and see this thread.

Remember to search the forum. That thread was the second hit searching pcspkr; your thread was first.

[Kats]

Really? I did search for pcspkr but got no hits.

Anyway, thanks. I'll see if it works. =)

[julian67]

Create a file;

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#disable pcspkr
install pcspkr /bin/true

and as root save it as /etc/modprobe.d/00local

You will never hear the pc speaker again, even after dist-upgrades.

00local is never overwritten by upgrades or package installs and while adding a module to the blacklist might work, it often doesn't do what people expect because it's not supposed to be used to blacklist kernel modules. If you read /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

# This file lists modules which will not be loaded as the result of
# alias expansion, with the purpose of preventing the hotplug subsystem
# to load them. It does not affect autoloading of modules by the kernel.

So create 00local and use that instead, it never fails and never changes.

[Bulkley]

Any good suggestions before I physically rip it out of my box?

That was my first choice.