Thanks Alejandro.  This was another solution that worked for me too.  But it
can also been done through alsamixer -c1 and muting the PC speaker.  ALSA
loads another module (perhaps this one) if the original pcspkr module is
blacklisted.

Nima

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Alejandro Ramón Ballesta <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in 2.6.26 there is an additional pc speaker module called snd-pcsp
> unloading and blacklisting that, should do the work (at least it did for
> me).
>
> Regards,
> Alejandro.
>
> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 22:01:07 Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I use Debian on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop.  By default, the laptop
> > produces a very loud, ugly, and annoying beep when, for example, you use
> > the tab completion in the console, etc.  I used to disable the beep by
> > adding "blacklist pcspkr" in /etc/modprob.d/blacklist in Etch.  It worked
> > in Etch and even until recently in Lenny (I have now the most recent
> > snapshot of Lenny).  But this is not working in Lenny anymore.  I use
> > "lsmod | grep pcspkr" to see if the module has been loaded but it is not
> > there.  When I used "modprobe pcspkr -v" it says that the module has been
> > loaded (only shows a path to the module file with no errors printed) but
> > "lsmod..." does not show anything loaded.
> >
> > Can anyone help me disable the PC speaker like before?  It really is
> > annoying.  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Nima
>
>
>

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