[ltp] System bell volume

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:30:45 +0100 (BST)


--- Booboo <m0par@home.com> wrote: 
> So I'm assuming its all or nothing. No way to disable just the system
> bell without disabling all sound?
> 
> Sorry if I'm being a pest, but the system bell is annoying as hell
> (which I suppose it is meant to be) and almost twice as loud as
> anything else that comes out of the speakers no matter how I set the
> mixer.

You can use the hardware volume control (Fn-PgUp and Fn-PgDn on
a ThinkPad 600 51U) to set a comfortable volume for the "bell".
Then you can use the mixer to adjust the other volume levels to
comfortable levels, given the hardware volume you have set.

Thomas

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