Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100

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

On Sat, 10 May 2003 22:23:06 +0200
Tuncer M "zayamut" Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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...

well, I actually saw PCMCIA functioning properly after
make clean'ing, recompiling and rebooting.
so no worries about that. now, off to find a replacement
for "APM idle calls".