Re: 2.5.69 strange high tone on DELL Inspiron 8100

Andrew McGregor (andrew@indranet.co.nz)
Tue, 13 May 2003 08:11:40 +1200


--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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