Hi!

I am running RedHat 9.0. My system beep is unpleasantly loud and I would
like to set down its volume. Is it possible?

I have installed all packages from the three installation CDs, so I have
one volume control application up and runing. I mean the one that is
launched from Gnome's Start/Sound & Video meny. But this application does
not set the system beep's volume.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Catalin

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Doru-Catalin Togea <doru-cat@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> Any suggestions?

Use the 'visible' bell setup to disable the beep, or just open
the machine and disconnect the speaker.

Davide

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:35:47 +0100, Doru-Catalin Togea wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am running RedHat 9.0. My system beep is unpleasantly loud and I would
> like to set down its volume. Is it possible?
>
> I have installed all packages from the three installation CDs, so I have
> one volume control application up and runing. I mean the one that is
> launched from Gnome's Start/Sound & Video meny. But this application does
> not set the system beep's volume.
>

Try 'man xset'

HTH
Andreas

Doru-Catalin Togea <doru-cat@ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
> Hi!
>
> I am running RedHat 9.0. My system beep is unpleasantly loud and I would
> like to set down its volume. Is it possible?
>
> I have installed all packages from the three installation CDs, so I have
> one volume control application up and runing. I mean the one that is
> launched from Gnome's Start/Sound & Video meny. But this application does
> not set the system beep's volume.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Catalin

If you're real careful, and you have a hot glue gun, you might be able
to deaden the sound slightly inside your PC if you can find where the
sound is eminating from.

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Andreas Tretow wrote:


> > I am running RedHat 9.0. My system beep is unpleasantly loud and I would
> > like to set down its volume. Is it possible?

> Try 'man xset'

I tried that. On my system (DELL Latitude D800) that command doesn't work
properly. I guess it's a limitation of my sound card. Anyways, xset sould
accept three parameters, the volume loudness (in %s of max volume), the
frequency of the sound and the duration of the sound. On my system the
first and last parameters both affect the duration of the sound.

So I can change the pitch of the system beep and its duration, but not
it's loudness (volume). That's a pity.

Thanks for your replay.
Catalin

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