Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100

[Tuncer M "zayamut" Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmx.de>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003 08:11:40 +1200
Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz> wrote:

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> 
> --On Monday, 12 May 2003 8:17 a.m. +0200 Tuncer M zayamut Ayaz 
> <tuncer.ayaz@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> > one thing none of you most probably wants to hear:
> > if this "APM idle calls" is that "HLT" stuff, then I have to tell
> > you that on win32 I had not such problems while using the CpuIdle
> > tool. sorry.
> 
> No, HLT on idle is always on in Linux.  APM idle is a separate
> feature, which Windows never did (although Windows does do the
> equivalent thing with ACPI).
> 
> 
> > any PCMCIA fixes already available in linus -bk?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> >
> > does CpuFreq depend on ACPI ? just in case i8k1 doesn't have proper
> > ACPI support.
> 
> No, it doesn't depend on ACPI.
> 
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ok, so I'm unsubscribing now from LKML, as my problem seems to be
fixed in some way or other.
thanks to all of you for your assistance.