This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep?

[billo]

Just installed Mageia 1, and am very impressed. There were some early problems with Radeon support, but the forum had already addresssed it, and I'm a happy camper.

There is one slightly irritating thing going on, though. I can't figure out how to quiet the system beep. Every time I hit the wrong key, the thing is so loud it scares my dog. Is this a KDE thing? A hardware thing? Where do I turn it down?

Thanks!

Config:

HP dv7 series laptop, AMD Turon processor, Mageia 1 with KDE.

[dubigrasu]

Every time I hit the wrong key, the thing is so loud it scares my dog. Is this a KDE thing? A hardware thing?

Could be a dog thing, have you tried with another dog?

[doktor5000]

Either you disable the builtin speaker, or you could try with pavucontrol.

[dubigrasu]

Oh, it seems that I misunderstood the question.
You can try from KDE control center (Configure your desktop) >> Common Appearance and Behavior>>Application and System Notifications>>System Bell.

[martinw]

If the above suggestions don't work, try typing "alsamixer" in a terminal window. When it starts up, press F6 to select a sound card, and from the options, select your actual sound hardware (for me this is "HDA Intel"). This should display a set of volume controls for the different channels, one of which may be labelled "Beep". If the "Beep" control is there, use the left/right cursor keys to select this volume control, then use the up/down cursor keys to change the volume (or press "M" to toggle the mute on/off).

[djennings]

And just to underline the point that in Linux there are many ways to do the same thing.
From Menu>Sound&Video>PulseAudioVolumeControl
Select the playback Tab and move the System Sounds slider.

BTW: With Pulse audio volume control you can set the volume of every active application. Each application has its own slider providing it is currently active and is pulseaudio aware.

[martinw]

However, on my laptop, the system sounds slider does not control the volume of the beep...

Strangely, I encountered this problem when I installed Mandriva 2010.0, but not when I installed Mageia. Audio in Linux still seems to be a bit hit and miss.

[doktor5000]

And just to underline the point that in Linux there are many ways to do the same thing.
From Menu>Sound&Video>PulseAudioVolumeControl
Select the playback Tab and move the System Sounds slider.

That is actually pavucontrol