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From: michael white <white@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console beep
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:49:03 -0700
Organization: University of California, Davis
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To: Matt McLeod <matt@hna.com.au>
Matt McLeod wrote:
>
> I finally got around to trying out FreeBSD, and I really like it (I had
> thought that Linux was pretty good stuff, but, if my initial impressions are
> anything to go by, FreeBSD is even better).
>
> I have found one minor annoyance, though - the console beep. Presumably
> there's a way to change this (perhaps by fooling around with the kernel
> sources?), but before I do anything really silly, I'd like to know if
> there's a "correct" way to fix this (ideally, I'd like to replace it with
> either a visual cue, or by dumping something to /dev/audio).
>
> Any pointers gratefully received.
>
> Matt
The way I fixed it (under Xfree86, I assume that is what you are using) is
by using the xset command. I use:
xset -b b 20 500 50
which isn't too annoying (to me at least). You can also just turn it off.
Check the man pages on xset.
--
- Mike
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