SUMMARY: Volume control on IPC

From: Jonathan C. Davis (Jonathan.C.Davis@acenet.auburn.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 20 1991 - 10:17:41 CDT


Thanks to everyone who responded to my request!

My original posting:

>
>I just got a new IPC whose warning "beep" is loud enough to wake the dead.
>Is it possible to turn down the volume? How?
>
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"xset" seems to be the only available software option. Unfortunately, the
volume and pitch controls don't work, but the duration control does.
Glenn Little (glittle@UCSD.EDU) explains:

> You know it! Those things are loud. The only thing I've found to do
> is, under X, set the beep duration as short as possible (xset 1 100 1).
> The first "1" is percentage of full volume. This seems to have no
> effect. The "100" is pitch. This too has no effect. The last "1"
> is duration. That kind of chokes off the beep. It sounds silly, but
> it's not quite as obnoxious. If you find out a real way to turn down
> the volume, I'm interested.

"xset" was also suggested by the following:
brent@curie.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brent Alan Wiese)
Russell Brand <wuthel!brand@lll-winken.llnl.gov>

Another suggestion came from Marcel Bernards (bernards%ecn.nl@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU):

> simply add a resistor of ~ 10 to 25 Ohm serial with the speaker:
>
>
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> | /
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> -----------------+

Then there's my favorite suggestion from
Rick Dipper <rick@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk>

> smack it one with a sledgehammer

Thanks again for the suggestions. This list is great!

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