[ltp] Q: Loud system beep

[Henrik Enberg]

"Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@cnt.ru> writes:
> System beep (PC speaker emulation) is too loud on my X41,
> especially when using headphones.  It still scares the sh*t out
> of me even on minimal volume.  Soundcard mixer set to 70-80%%,
> movie/music volume is OK, it's only system beep sound that is
> bothering me and I don't want to (read: too lazy to setup) use
> visual bell.  Is there any way to make it softer?

You can turn it off completely pretty easily.  Just put "install pcspkr
true" on a line by itself in "/etc/modules", and it should be dead on
next boot.  "modprobe -r pcspkr" to kill it on a running system.