system bell volume goes up when I turn up the speakers

[Clint Harshaw]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 08:06, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> 
>>When I turn up the volume on my external speakers, the system bell 
>>volume goes up -- which can be really startling!! On my FC1 box, the 
>>system bell comes out the internal case-integrated speaker.
>>
>>Is there a slider that I can adjust that will "unlink" the pcspkr volume 
>>from the volume on my external speakers? Or is there some other sound 
>>adjustment I can do to remedy this? Is it happening to anyone else?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Clint
>>
> 
> alsamixer has a slider for the PC Speak 

I think that did it! Thank you, Jeff! For others, here's what I did:
1. open a terminal
2. at the prompt, type alsamixer
3. arrow over to Phone
4. arrow down to reduce the level to 10 on Phone

Clint