Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6 | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:37:42 +0200 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
> Hi! > >> >> >> ... and lose all the benefits of HZ=1000. What would happen if one >> >> >> were to set HZ to a higher value, like 10000? >> >> >> >> There is a similar issue filed on : >> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3406 >> >> >> > >> > 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.
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