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Turning off the annoying system beep in VMWare running Linux

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Searching high and low, I tried everything to stop by system from producing an annoying system beep from Linux running in VMWare Player.

It was simple:

sudo modprobe -r pcspkr

For a more permanent solution, add blacklist pcspkr to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

See the Ubuntu tutorials for details.

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July 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

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  1. Whoa this actually worked I’m impressed. To change it though I had to change the privs (chown -R (username) /etc/modprobe.d). Then yea, thank you Very Freaking Much!!!!

    FrankL

    19 Sep 08 at 19:26

  2. That sound drove me crazy :) . Thanks a lot.

    Krzysiek

    3 Oct 08 at 05:43

  3. You can also add the hidden preference “mks.noBeep = TRUE” to your preferences.ini file (on Windows host) or /etc/config (on Linux host)

    foo bar

    11 Jan 09 at 08:44

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