Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Wed, 2004-10-20 18:37:42 +0200, Måns Rullgård <mru@mru.ath.cx>
wrote in message <yw1x65554a7d.fsf@mru.ath.cx>:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
> >> > He he, someone should write a driver to play music on
> >> > those capacitors....
> >> Why not?  They used to have special files that played music on the
> >> printer when printed.
> > Yes, it would be nice... to scare people :-). Also with such piece of
> > software it would be rather easy to tell if given mainboard is junk.
> I've noticed my laptop makes a slight noise whenever there's heavy
> network traffic.  Maybe that could be used to control the pitch even
> without a kernel hack.

That would make up a pure userspace driver, even for a remotely
accessibly hardware device. Cool:-)

MfG, JBG

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