Is there a way to turn off the console's beep, or at least  is there a way
to turn the beep's volume down? (Other than by simply turning down the
volume knob.  Even with the XMMS slider all the way up, the beep is at least
as loud as (generally louder than) any music that I'm listening to.  If I'm
comfortable with the music, the beep is
 disturbing. If the beep is comfortable, the music is too low.

This mostly botheres me in an xterm attached to bash and in emacs under X.I
could probably find applications-specific knobs to twiddle to eliminate the
beeps there. But, I'd really like to know if there's a nice way to do this
at the system level.

Regards, Zafer.