Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100

From: Ahmed Masud <masud@googgun.com>
To: Tuncer M zayamut Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmx.de>
Cc: <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:52:39 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0305101150420.24272-100000@marauder.googgun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030510154639.02DDC32C9@marauder.googgun.com>

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Tuncer M zayamut Ayaz wrote:

> On Sat, 10 May 2003 11:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
> Ahmed Masud <masud@googgun.com> wrote:
>
> can't say whether there is an internal speaker it could come
> from. source of sound is right beneath the keyboard,
> and creating load aka moving an x11 window around produces
> funny patterns --> no high tone, it almost disappears,
> but just low-volume sound reacting to when I move the
> window around.
> for a non-hardware-expert this is strange stuff.
>

I think your keyboard may have a stuck key *grin*.

Suggest the following:

1. remove keyboard from computer, to see if that stops the sound.
2. remove mouse from computer to see if that stops the sound. (ps/2 mice
can be silly)

if neither then we can say you have an odd bug.

Ahmed.