[linux-audio-user] beeps are going to break my ears

[Maarten De Boer]

> Yeah, you're right - rant was a bit strong.  Sorry.  On the original

No problem.

> subject, I wish I could help poor old George but I don't know the answer
> to his question ;-)

I, as a matter of fact, do, so politics aside, and on-topic again:

If you are using X11, use
$ xset b off

And I have seen that KDE has some control panel to assign error sounds.
>From the console, I think you'll have to modify your termcap.
Anywa, there is a Linux HOWTO on the subject:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Visual-Bell.html

Maarten