Hi, I am not sure that this will work for beeps etc. but you might do aumix -q and check the volume setting. decriece with aumix -v50 e.g. HTH Willem On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Darragh wrote: > hello, > Hello, I'm using a laptop and the sound is very high. I want to be able to decrease the volume of the sounds while in a bash prompt. > for example, when I press back space at the start of a line it beeps as you'd expect. That's the type of sound I want to be able to > decrease. > > I'd Also like to know how to get the sound to go through an earphone. While using windows when I connected an earphone in the > speakers automatically muted and sound was sent through the earphone jack however this doesn't seem to be the dase in Linux. how can > I set this up? I read that this is normal. > > I'm using a dell d600 with Suse 9.3. > > Thanks > Oh and by the way, I heard from someone that speakup wouldn't work with suse 9.3. is this still the case? > > Darragh > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.