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By default minicom uses ctrl-a which also happens to be used by screen. If you started minicom inside a screen session and hit ctrl-a then your ctrl-a will be caught by screen. Now how to issue a minicom command? Just hit ctrl-a a. You can also use screen to connect to the serial port so that you don’t even need minicom anymore:

# screen /dev/ttyS0 38400

Here’s a quick way to get rid of that annoying beep sound when selecting a login name in the GDM greeter on Fedora 14:

As root type the following command:
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 –type=bool –set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false