Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268681AbUJTRCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268690AbUJTQ51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:57:27 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:9620 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268681AbUJTQyf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:54:35 -0400 Subject: Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6 From: Lee Revell To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Pavel Machek , "Yu, Luming" , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8405D3BF5B@pdsmsx403> <20041018114109.GC4400@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20041020154718.GD26439@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <1098291205.1429.76.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:53:25 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 12:37, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > I've noticed my laptop makes a slight noise whenever there's heavy > network traffic. Maybe that could be used to control the pitch even > without a kernel hack. Well, in your case the bad capacitors might be in the NIC. The ethernet phones at my last job were so cheaply made that you could hear it ARPing through your computer speakers. I bet you could actually identify the singing capacitor using a telephone toner wand. IMHO this is a bad enough problem to RMA it. What if you had bought the thing for sound recording? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/