System beeps, or system bells as it is officially called, got activated automatically when I upgraded to Fedora 10. It is a nice feature especially when I receive new e-mails in my Evolution Inbox the system speaker makes a beep sound. But it becomes really annoying if you are using the terminal or if you get a lot of e-mails. For example I use the auto complete feature in the terminal quite often. When there are more than one option to auto complete the system beeps. This really annoys me. I also hear a lot of beeps when I use MATLAB command window. In the past (previous Fedora releases) I was able to disable this beep by changing the sound preferences.

Today it really got on my nerve and I decided to do some search to disable it. Apparently it is a bug. Fortunately there is an immediate solution. By typing the following as root the beep can be disabled.

# rmmod pcspkr
# echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist