[CentOS] system startup sound

Fri Dec 10 18:49:58 UTC 2010
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] system startup sound
> 
> 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.

Yes, that's a good point worth remembering.

I also use the initial 'beep' from a reboot as an indicator 
that my fresh kickstart installation has just finished.

Keith

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In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.

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