Disable Beeper on Linux

• July 3, 2025
• linux  
• desktop  
• fedora  

I find the occasional BEEEEP coming from my PC speaker extremely annoying. My irritation is amplified tenfold by the fact that my ThinkPad's speaker is very, VERY loud.

After playing Whack-a-Mole for some time, attempting to disable the audible bell in various environments, I decided to take more destructive action.

To temporarily disable the Clangy McBangy, run the following command in the terminal:

sudo rmmod pcspkr

To prevent the speaker from loading at boot, you can blacklist the module. Create or edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/nosound.conf (or any suitable name) and add the following line:

blacklist pcspkr

After blacklisting, update the initramfs:

sudo dracut -v -f

You should never hear that horrible noise again.