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Hello all.

Anyone know of a way of turning down the volume of the
system beep on a blade 2500? For digital audio, I use
/bin/audioplay -v 49 -d /dev/audioctl, but that system
beep (xwd uses it for instance) is what I'm referrring
to; somewhat deafening in a quiet office environment.

Thanks!

bl8n8r wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Anyone know of a way of turning down the volume of the
> system beep on a blade 2500? For digital audio, I use
> /bin/audioplay -v 49 -d /dev/audioctl, but that system
> beep (xwd uses it for instance) is what I'm referrring
> to; somewhat deafening in a quiet office environment.
>
> Thanks!
>
if you mean bell then, $ xset b off
does quiet it , $ xset b on
makes it beep :-)
/Jörgen

Jorgen Moquist wrote:
> bl8n8r wrote:
> > Hello all.

<snip>

> if you mean bell then, $ xset b off
> does quiet it , $ xset b on
> makes it beep :-)
> /Jörgen



Thanks Jörgen

Very good to remember for a terminal session
When using /usr/openwin/bin/xwd or getting new
mail in Mozilla however, the beep is still very
loud. :/

bl8n8r wrote:
> Jorgen Moquist wrote:
>
>>bl8n8r wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all.
>
>
> <snip>
>
>>if you mean bell then, $ xset b off
>> does quiet it , $ xset b on
>> makes it beep :-)
>>/Jörgen
>
>
>
>
> Thanks Jörgen
>
> Very good to remember for a terminal session
> When using /usr/openwin/bin/xwd or getting new
> mail in Mozilla however, the beep is still very
> loud. :/
>
if the beep comes from the keyboard, there is no volume on a keyboards.
some older like alfascope had it.
use tape on the beeper til you are satisfied.
i guess pc's bel comes from the internal speaker dont know if it does
volume.

furder reading is $ man ascii
the character 7 is the <bel>

in a terminal window press <ctrl>+<g>
adjust with tape ;-)
/Jörgen

Hi Jörgen.

The beep that is giving me difficulty is the one emanating from the
system case. I began an eager crusade with a fist-full of scotch-tape
and thought "Hmm, surely there must be a better way."
.....duct-tape is the better way? :/

bl8n8r wrote:
> Hi Jörgen.
>
> The beep that is giving me difficulty is the one emanating from the
> system case. I began an eager crusade with a fist-full of scotch-tape
> and thought "Hmm, surely there must be a better way."
> ....duct-tape is the better way? :/
>
i was thinking tape will cure a kbd beep !
system case beep, could be cured with a resistor
in series with the speaker.
i dont know values of it, try a potentiometer about 100 Ohm.
the speaker is probably 8-25 Ohms.
i have never tried this myself,
so i just guess !
/Jörgen

"bl8n8r" <bl8n8r@yahoo.com> writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
|Anyone know of a way of turning down the volume of the
|system beep on a blade 2500? For digital audio, I use
|/bin/audioplay -v 49 -d /dev/audioctl, but that system
|beep (xwd uses it for instance) is what I'm referrring
|to; somewhat deafening in a quiet office environment.

The beeper volume is not controllable unfortunately, which is why
we added the -audiobell option to Xsun to pipe it through /dev/audio
instead, allowing volume and pitch control through xset or the CDE
Style Manager "beep" panel. You should be able to just add -audiobell
to the Xsun command line at the end of /etc/dt/config/Xservers (copy it
from /usr/dt/config/Xservers if it doesn't exist) and it should be used
the next time you restart X.

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Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
<snip>

>
> The beeper volume is not controllable unfortunately, which is why
> we added the -audiobell option to Xsun to pipe it through /dev/audio
> instead, allowing volume and pitch control through xset or the CDE
> Style Manager "beep" panel. You should be able to just add
-audiobell
> to the Xsun command line at the end of /etc/dt/config/Xservers (copy
it
> from /usr/dt/config/Xservers if it doesn't exist) and it should be
used
> the next time you restart X.
>


Hi Alan.

ps didn't show any "-audiobell" flag until I edited
/usr/dt/config/Xservers directly..hrmm... Should I be
able to control the speaker volume through something
such as /bin/audioplay -v 20 -d /dev/audio now? I've
tried -d /dev/audio as well as -d /dev/audioctl but there
there seems to be no system beep a'tall. It does work to
run play /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav however.
Is this the intended action of -audiobell?


Thanks
bl8n8r

bl8n8r wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Anyone know of a way of turning down the volume of the
> system beep on a blade 2500? For digital audio, I use
> /bin/audioplay -v 49 -d /dev/audioctl, but that system
> beep (xwd uses it for instance) is what I'm referrring
> to; somewhat deafening in a quiet office environment.
>
> Thanks!
>

How about waiting for OpenSolaris and rewriting the beep driver?

--
Chris

>
> How about waiting for OpenSolaris and rewriting the beep driver?
>
> --
> Chris


sure. I'd be glad to. If there is no other way around this