How do I turn down the volume on a system beep ?

[Charlie Brej]

On 03/22/2010 05:36 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:30 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote:
>>>> System beeps, ie Evolution receiving a new email are very loud.  How do
>>>> I turn them down ?
>>>
>>> I want to keep the volume I have for media listening, I want to keep the
>>> system warnings but just at a lower volume.
>>>
>> $ xset -b 50
>
> Its actually xset b 50, not xset -b 50.
>
> Thanks !

Actually, neither of those work on x86 PCs. There is an option in X but 
it doesn't do anything. You can change the pitch but not the volume. I 
tried a while back to offer a patch to the kernel to enable this, but no 
one was that interested because the system bell was essentially dead.