hw.syscons.bell not working?

[Bigby James]

On 12/27, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Lenovo X201i
> FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r276028: Sun Dec 21 22:48:24 CET 2014
> 
> set
> # sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0
> 
> But console still generates loud beeps, to my frustration.
> 
> Did I miss something? This laptop ran 9-STABLE before and did not beep
> at me. Suggestions?

I was having the same problem. vt(4) is the default console driver in 10-STABLE,
as well as the default starting with 10.0-RELEASE when booting via UEFI, so the
'hw.syscons.bell' setting no longer has meaning in that context. There doesn't
seem to be a vt-specific analog for it yet.

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