Adjusting Console Bell Volume

[tony j. podrasky]

O/S - RedHat 3.0 AS

Platform - Evo N610c Laptop

Question - What controls the BELL VOLUME
when the system is in console (non-X) mode?

I have a disk with 2 partitions of Linux. One is virgin, and works fine. The other started out as a copy of the virgin one, and then was heavily modified - not kernel gen's but user environment.

If you come up in single-user mode, and hit the backspace you get a bell. If you something, not only don't you get the sound, but then the bell doesn't work anymore. If I bring the system up to runlevel 3-5, go into X mode, fire up one of the volume control programs and adjust the volume, then everything is fine.

I have been all over Google and found all sorts of references, but none that point to what I could have changed from the user enviroment level to cause this problem.

I've compared all sorts of things between the two O/S's (dmesg / lsmod / messages / printenv / set / various things in proc), and can't find any discrepancy.

Yeah, I know: this problem is super-low priority :-) and can be worked-around by just bringing up and X session and twiddling the volume buttons - but it's bugging me that I can't find any reason for this to happen, and at this time I'm not about to rebuild the partition from the virgin and slowly rebuild the operating environment until I find the bug. :-)

[Stuart Browne]

Do you have the 'aumix' package installed? It's a volume-control for text-mode.

.. Unless you're using an 'alsa' based driver for your audio card, at which point you have to use the 'alsamixer'.

To find out which you are using, just 'lsmod'. There'll be lots of 'alsa-' things.

[Gopi Sekar]

check man tput. it lists the capabilities for setting console bell and visual bell settings

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Guru Dutta]

Try sndconfig and its options(just a shot in the dark)