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Title: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: eQuacky on 2019/08/31, 13:40:10
Hi folks,
as my console's beep is just too loud, especially during autocompletion, I looked for a solution on the internet.

Tried as follows:
pactl set-sink-volume 0 50%
provided no results
pacmd set-sink-volume 0 50%
resulted in:
Failed to parse volume
pacmd list-sinks showed me that I have only index 0

What can I do else?
siduction 18.3.0 patience (201908101450) lxqt 0.14.1, fully upgraded

Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: finotti on 2019/09/01, 18:06:00
You could try alsamixer.
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: vinzv on 2019/09/02, 16:03:49
Is the PC's internal speaker beeping? If so you could deactivate it completely:
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sudo rmmod pcspkrTo have this change permanently surving reboots create a file
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/etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.confAnd fill this file with:
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echo "blacklist pcspkr"
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: eQuacky on 2019/09/03, 18:33:20
@vinuv
thanks rmmod worked


@finotti
just heard a couple of years ago  pulseaudio should be the better sound solution?!
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: finotti on 2019/09/03, 19:01:11
@finotti
just heard a couple of years ago  pulseaudio should be the better sound solution?!
pulseaudio is (probably) better for the desktop, but it does run on top of alsa.  If when in a terminal you don't have pulse, you can try alsamixer...  (I haven't tried it myself.)  But what matters is that you found a solution!
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: melmarker on 2019/09/03, 22:25:58
Finotti: One should use the standard cli tool pactl - simple google for. man pactl is also worth reading.

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pactl list sinks # all the sinks in the system
pactl set-sink-mute $sink {true|false|toggle} # mute, un-mute, toggle mute
pactl set-sink-volume  $sink vol% # also +/- vol% are possible

and so on ...

Otherwise vinzv is right - if the pcspkr module is used - some older dell notebooks see it different :D
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: piper on 2019/09/03, 22:27:57
Or just disable it (pc speaker) from the bios (if your board has that option)
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: melmarker on 2019/09/03, 22:29:33
a cable cutter might help too
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: piper on 2019/09/04, 01:29:16
:) you got that right
Title: Re: How to adjust the volume on the console?
Post by: tranquil on 2020/02/09, 09:27:40
Hopefully this isn't considered necro-posting, but I use the Openbox window manager and I have the following line in the autostart file to turn off system beeps:

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xset b off
xset comes with x11-server-utils. You should be able to issue the same command from the command line, but you'll need to remember to issue the command every time you boot your computer.