Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:53:08 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@mru.ath.cx>, "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6
Message-ID: <20041020165308.GA19940@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > >> > He he, someone should write a driver to play music on
> > >> > those capacitors....
> > >> Why not?  They used to have special files that played music on the
> > >> printer when printed.
> > > Yes, it would be nice... to scare people :-). Also with such piece of
> > > software it would be rather easy to tell if given mainboard is junk.
> > 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.
> 
> That would make up a pure userspace driver, even for a remotely
> accessibly hardware device. Cool:-)

"Help! Not only are our machines under Distributed DoS attack, they
also play Yankee Doodle ;-)))."
								Pavel
-- 
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
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