From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-168049-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDBE13888F for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E25021C04F; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (mail.muc.de [193.149.48.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D246321C03F for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 59627 invoked by uid 3782); 20 Oct 2015 18:25:44 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p548A5C6D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.138.92.109]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:25:43 +0200 Received: (qmail 7339 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Oct 2015 18:27:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:27:23 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down? Message-ID: <20151020182723.GC6901@acm.fritz.box> References: <20151020161029.GC1781@acm.fritz.box> <56267844.8050506@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56267844.8050506@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 6ed2fdd2-5c37-4c57-a3df-8149c2586fda X-Archives-Hash: 4e14727d094ffe36579b9c77a0ffb51f 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.mckinnon@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).