Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100

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

On Sat, 10 May 2003 22:06:25 +0200
Tuncer M "zayamut" Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 10 May 2003 19:47:47 +0200
> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Le sam 10/05/2003 à 19:35, Tuncer M zayamut Ayaz a écrit :
> > 
> > > rebooted with a reconfigured kernel to assure it's not cpufreq.
> > > same behaviour without cpufreq.
> > 
> > You should perhaps try to enable/disable APM idle calls ..
> > 
> > 	Xav
> 
> disabling apm idle calls seem to fix it but on this notebook
> those calls are necessary so that it doesn't get too hot.
> or can ACPI be used to accomplish those calls?
> 
> I'm already running it always on SpeeStep power-saving mode
> so that it doesn't get REALLY hot. try typing on an Inspiron
> 8100 in the summer while compiling for a while. it's not
> healthy for your hands :D

besides fixing the noise issue by disabling a wanted feature,
somehow pcmcia is borked, it just doesn't work and print
lots of error messages and one of pcmcia processes (dunno which)
segfaults.
may be my fault, who knows. well, we'll see...