On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 17:04 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > Yes, from talking to someone who works on the assembly line in Dell > > here in Limerick, they seem to have totally different manufacturing > > standards, tolerances, etc, for the high-end laptops and for the cheap > > ones. > > I must own an inspironingly cheap one. Say so there is absolutely no > software way to get rid of the singing capacitor? That's pretty much > what I assume it to be. Singing capacitor caused by the interrupts at > the end of each buffering cycle. I only have a vague idea what that > means, but maybe you kernel people can help. Please? No, there's no possible software fix for this hardware problem. Lee
