From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.177.163.205]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2055337 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:51:35 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: SnapperMail 2.3.7.01 by Snapperfish To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Beep Message-ID: <9674-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC4F98918@[10.177.163.205]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:45:58 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit .On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:31:50 -0400 (EDT) "Carl Gehr" wrote: >On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:15:21 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >>On 09/19/08 11:31 am, Carl Gehr thus wrote : >>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:28:14 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 09/16/08 09:03 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : >>>> >>>>> is there any way on these machines to regulate the sound of the beep? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Not AFAIK, sorry... >>>> >>> >>> Have you tried: >>> "On Screen Display utility for most Thinkpad laptops" >>> >>Doesn't work for ACPI machines, unfortunately... >> >>Look in the ACPI docs for references to the remote control package. That >>might be usable to adjust speaker volume from the buttons, but perhaps >>not the beep. > >Well, my T60 is using ACPI and APM. And, as I change the volume with >the button on the top of the keyboard, it beeps softer/louder as the >volume changes; or it turns the sound off completely. When I use it to >turn the volume off, there is no sound from anything. When I set it >loud, every sound I hear is loud, including beeps. > >I have done nothing with the ACPI settings -- Mostly, because I just do >not understand what they do. e.g., What is the "remote control package" >that you mention? What do you do that creates a beep that is not >controlled by the tool? > >I guess YMMV, but it does work here... > Wow... You might want to drop Jan a note about that. The T61 seems to ignore it. I guess that's due to the fine differences between the two models. Thanks for the clarification, Carl!! ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail