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This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep?
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Jun 5th, '11, 20:18by 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.
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 5th, '11, 20:43by 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?
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 5th, '11, 20:53by doktor5000
Either you disable the builtin speaker, or you could try with pavucontrol.
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 5th, '11, 21:07by 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.
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 5th, '11, 22:47by 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).
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 6th, '11, 02:07by 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.
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 6th, '11, 22:07by 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.
Re: This is probably silly, but... how do turn down the beep
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Jun 6th, '11, 23:32by doktor5000
djennings wrote: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
