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  1. Jaunty (9.04)
  2. Bug #331589
  3. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 331589

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Chris Dickson (whiskychris) wrote : Re: system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man

As has previously been mentioned and detailed you can manually disable the pc speaker if you desire:

To get rid of most of the "alerts" (for instance in the terminal): System - Preferences - Sound - Sounds, then uncheck "Play alert sound"
==> This won't however stop the system beeping on shutdown

To get rid of the shutdown beep (and perhaps making that last step redundent) you should blacklist the pc speaker:

In a terminal type "gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"
=>This will open gedit, go to the last line in the file.

Type "blacklist pcspkr" without quotes onto a blank line at the end of this file and then save and close gedit.

This has all been said further up this report.