Had the laptop now for about 3 months running FC6, and have to say that I'm generally very happy with it. Everything just seems to work... (haven't tested everything though!)

The only problem I'm having is that the volume on the system bell is incredibly high. I can mute the speakers, control the audio volume, or disable the internal system bell through KDE's kontrol center (kcontrol), but the laptop still likes to beep when it's starting (ifplugd in particular) or shutting down.

This laptop has "media controls" as the top row of keys, but they don't seem to do anything under Linux. I have no reason to believe that they're not working, only that whatever they would be bound to in Windows is not bound in Linux.

Is there any way to adjust the volume of the basic "system bell" through the bios or something similar?