Comment 5 for bug 77010

I also agree disabling system beeps also in virtual consoles. If you have your loudspeakers pluged in and want to listen to music and a system beep appears it's a big pain for the ears! Especially when your loudspeakers stand in the near, for example on your desk!

The problem on my Thinkpad Z61m is - even if I listen to music in low volume the beep is so much louder than normal music that it trashes the ears.

I also cannot disable or lower the volume of my PC speakers in Gnome mixer:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T60/R60 series
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        Memory at ee240000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>