[lug] GDM noises (was Re: Panera wireless using Fedora)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:30:57 -0600
"Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:38 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > it's not been pushed to stable updates yet. Should show up tomorrow
> > hopefully. 
> 
> Okay, I'll pick it up later this week.  No rush.  
> 
> One other minor thing while I've got your attention Kevin:  gdm now
> makes a little "bloop" kinda noise when I login.  Any way to turn that
> off?  I hate those noises.  I disabled the pc speaker so it wouldn't
> beep (loudly) on shutdown by adding the following
> to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
> 
> blacklist pcspkr
> 
> Since the gdm sound didn't go away I assume its using the sound system
> (PulseAudio?).  Is there a config to disable this?  I found this but
> couldn't make heads or tails of the workaround:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503360

yeah, thats nasty. ;( 

It should work though. Just follow those steps in the comment there...
you may need to install gconf-editor. 

I suppose you could switch to kdm or slim... 

kevin
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