Hello, Alan. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:22:12PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/10/2015 18:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo.
> > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting > > the machine down. > > Can anybody here tell me how to disable this <beep>ing annoyance? > > Many thanks in advance! > Where is the beep coming from? The beep speaker in my PC case. > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & > Notifications or similar in your DE. I use XFCE. I get a similar beep on exiting XFCE, and I've sent a similar request to an XFCE list asking how I can disable that beep. > That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been > in pc's since the first one? Yes, that one! After spending all the time I did trying to get my kernel to drive it, I now want to suppress it (sometimes). > Is this happening inside a DE session, or from a virtual console? >From a virtual console. Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself. I think I'm going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep. > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
