How to lower the sound of beep?

chickenjoy · 09-22-2007, 09:30 AM

This happens on a newly installed centos 5 on my home laptop; the system beep is so loud; at its maximum I presume. The volume control doesn't have any connection to it; even if I set it to mute it would still have the same loud beep. Its very uncomfortable hearing loud beeps during every session.

Does anyone know or suggest a way to lower the volume level of these beeps?

thanks.

jay73 · 09-22-2007, 10:01 AM

I would guess man beep.

alienDog · 09-23-2007, 04:00 AM

I don't think that beeper volume can be controlled in the majority of systems (it doesn't go through mixer). It can be muted though. In X, do:

xset -b off

and on console:

setterm -blength 0

chickenjoy · 09-24-2007, 06:27 AM

right thanks! so far my remedy is to disable the system beeps from the system-config-sound.

matthewg42 · 09-24-2007, 08:32 AM

You can also prevent the pcspkr kernel module from loading by adding it as blacklisted in modprobe.d.

jay73 · 09-24-2007, 12:47 PM

Didn't beep work then?

alienDog · 09-26-2007, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jay73

Didn't beep work then?

What is beep??? I have never used a distro that has a tool like that.