[CentOS] system startup sound

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Dec 10 18:21:58 UTC 2010


Timo Schoeler wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 05:42 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Ritika Garg wrote:
>>> Whenever the system boots there is sound ( beep ). Is there any way to
>>> disable it?
>>
>> That's a firmware/BIOS thing, if it's the one I think.
>
> Pull the cable of the internal PC speaker. The annoying 'beep' is the
> only sensible sound that thing is capable of, anyways. (Yes, I know
> there are ways to redirect sound to that crappy device an yes, I had
> hard laughs of it way back in Amiga times, too. :)

On the other hand, I *have* diagnosed problems from the beep code, which
it's not hard to look up.

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