Re: Inspiron 8000 makes high pitch noise only with 2.6.0-test1

[Joel Metelius <joel.metelius@home.se>]

Yes, it was discussed at LKML in May (search the archive around May 13).

I think the board idle the processor anyway, my dell latitude does it,
so you don't need linux to do it.

/joel

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:28, Daniel.Dorau@alumni.TU-Berlin.DE wrote:
> Joel,
> thank you. I will try this. But doesn't this mean, that it will
> consume more power? My belief is that this had worked with
> 2.4 without that noise.
> You said it helped you and others. Has this been discussed on
> this or some other mailing list?
> 
> Thank you
> Daniel
> 
> > try turning off
> >
> > CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
> >
> > it help me and others, but it had nothing to do with ethernet
> > drivers...
> 
> > /joel
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:39, Daniel.Dorau@alumni.TU-Berlin.DE wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >> yesterday I tried the 2.6.0-test1 kernel for the first time.
> >> Installation went flawlessly. However I noticed a high pitch
> >> noise from my notebook everytime after the ethernet driver
> >> was loaded, no matter which one (eepro100 or e100).