[ltp] Re: Random beeps

[Norman Walsh]

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/ Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
|> When my T42p came back, I decided to install Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on it.
|> Everything went smoothly, but now I have this very odd problem where
|> the machine "beeps" periodically.
[...]
|> Anyone have any thoughts?
|
| Just that I experienced the same thing on a Dell desktop running
| Debian GNU/Linux (etch). I too, use Emacs (22), and am pretty sure
| that's it. The beeps would only occur when I was typing in an Emacs
| window, if I remember correctly.
|
| I fixed it with "modprobe -r pcspkr" ;-).

FWIW, I've definitely noticed the beeps outside of Emacs now.

On the one hand, easy to ignore. On the other, devilishly hard to
diagnose. Somewhere in the middle must be the real answer :-/

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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                              | habit.-- Aristotle

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