How do I disable the system beep in FreeBSD 10.1?

taco_truck_tom

How do I disable the system beep on the console in FreeBSD 10.1? The recommended commands don't work. The sysctl setting: # sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0 hw.syscons.bell: 1 -> 0 # sysctl -a | grep bell hw.syscons.bell: 0 Backspace still results in an ear splitting beep. Found another suggestion , to use kbdcontrol : # kbdcontrol -b off # Nope, still beeps. My system details: An old Gateway MD-78 series laptop (with Intel GM45 Express Chipset),...

Originally asked by rakslice on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

If you're running vt a.k.a. newcons , try: kbdcontrol -b quiet.off If that works, you can make it permanent in your /etc/rc.conf : allscreens_kbdflags="-b quiet.off" Background: After running kbdcontrol from an Xterm and seeing it print out an escape sequence, I realized that it is trying to send a command in the form of an escape sequence to the terminal emulation in the console driver, and it might need to be sending something different because I'm not using the default console driver; then I looked for and found the answer specific to newcons : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-April/049463.html

Full answer by rakslice: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/219826 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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