Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:24:51 -0500 | From | Bill Gribble <> | Subject | Mystery clicking under keyboard, 3.x only, SSD only |
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I am running Debian Sid on a Viliv N5, which is an Atom Z520/Poulsbo (GMA500) UMPC. It has no rotating media or fans. With Debian's linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae and earlier kernels behavior is normal (except for flaky libertas wifi, which is why I seek to upgrade).
Any 3.0 or 3.1 kernel I have tried from Debian (I have tried each incremental version, most recently linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae) starts, within a minute after boot, to make a soft clicking noise from under the keyboard. Clicks appear to be correlated with interrupt-generating activity such as moving a mouse pointer or pressing keys. This clicking does not start in earnest until an X server comes up, but even booting into single-user mode I hear it some. With an X display up, there is a continuous stream of 5-10 clicks per second, more when moving the mouse pointer.
There is no disk or fan on this machine (SSD only). The audio system is Intel HDA; I have tried muting all mixer channels, turning all volumes to 0, even blacklisting all the intel HDA modules and all the pc speaker modules. In any case, the speaker for the device is in the screen bezel, not the keyboard (I think; I have never gotten the speaker to work properly).
I have also tried blacklisting the psb_gfx module in 3.1.
I see nothing of interest in any logs. Nothing I have done changes the behavior at all.
Any thoughts about what this could be? I am getting a little crazy about it.
Thanks, Bill Gribble
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