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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:55:57
Message-Id: 201510211055.46559.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 10:03:42 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > Where is the beep coming from?
4 > >
5 > > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts &
6 > > Notifications or similar in your DE.
7 > >
8 > > That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been
9 > > in pc's since the first one?
10 >
11 > Am I unusual in not having such a speaker in either of my boxes?
12
13 No, modern PCs don't always have an internal speaker fitted, although the
14 MoBos have terminals to connect a piezoelectric speaker to. They are/were
15 useful for BIOS error messages, but I am not sure if modern UEFI firmware
16 produces error code beeps when things go wrong - I haven't fitted a speaker to
17 mine.
18
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down? Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>