bell.volume does not work (on my notebook), but bell.pitch does.
master.outputs turns the volume down, but also running mp3 streams,
therefore bell.pitch=0 is perfect.

Thank you very much guys.

I should add  this info to the wiki :)
http://wiki.onetbsd.org

Cheers, Zafer.



2006/7/11, Ola Eriksson <ola@mreriksson.net>:
> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
> > thus Zafer Aydogan spake:
> >
> >> Hola,
> >>
> >> is there a way to turn down or turn off  the console beep ?
> >> I can set "xset b off" when using X, but how is this managed on the
> >> console ?
> >>
> >> Cheers, Zafer.
> >>
> >
> > try
> >
> > mixerctl -w outputs.master=7,7
>
> Another way is to use wsconsctl(8) to modify the bell.* settings.
> (bell.volume is probably a good place to start. Some more details are
> available at http://www.mreriksson.net/faqs/netbsd/#Q31 )
>
> # wsconsctl -a | grep bell
> bell.pitch=1500
> bell.period=100
> bell.volume=50
> bell.pitch.default=1500
> bell.period.default=100
> bell.volume.default=50
> #
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best Regards,
> Ola Eriksson
> GMQ Consulting, http://www.gmq.se
>