Comment 96 for bug 77010

I just uninstalled Ubuntu because of this problem. I installed it this morning, and had been using it in my university classes. I hit backspace too many times and got some scary loud beeps, despite volume being muted. I Googled for advice, and was advised to destroy my PC speaker physically. Some more digging revealed a possible manual change to some configuration file to turn off the beeps. I did the change, and hit Reboot. When shutting down, I got about 10 rapid high-pitched outrageously-loud beeps. Lecture stopped as everyone looked at me for a few seconds in disgust.

I will not boot into that installation of Ubuntu ever, ever again. I'll be back in a few versions, but you can bet I'll be installing it and testing it in a place where loud noises are OK.

Turn off all system beeps, completely, period, every time, all the time, or I'll never be back.