Finally, I figured it out!!!!! It turns out my Logitech MX 3200 wireless keyboard has (of all the stupid add-ons) .... an ALARM!!! Somehow, when the batteries in the keyboard were last replaced, the alarm got switched to "ON". The little LCD panel displaying the date and time (and alarm icon) is not backlit, so is nearly impossible to see unless you tilt the keyboard under the light at just the right angle.
Why does a keyboard need a clock and an alarm? Ask the geniuses at Logitech! Theresa On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 12:11 -0500, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > Hi, all, I'm hoping someone has some suggestions to help me find the > ghost in the machine. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 (kernel > 2.6.28-15-generic, GNOME 2.26.1) on an Intel Core2 Duo machine with 4GB > of RAM. It's been a good, solid machine since I built it. > > About a month or so back (no, I don't recall installing anything out of > the ordinary) something peculiar started happening. Every night at > 23:23, the machine begins to emit a series of beeps in a distinctive > pattern. This goes on for one minute, then quits until the next > evening. > > Log files show nothing. I've tried having top running and watching to > see if any processes are spawned at the witching hour, but no joy. If > the machine is running at all, the beeps happen. Even if I am not > logged in. Even if I am logged in but have no applications running. > > It wouldn't be so bad but, like a lot of people, my computer is in my > room, and if I'm sleeping it's like an alarm clock going off (yes, I am > often asleep before midnight). > > Does anyone have any suggestions at all? I would really like to find > out what it is -- if I can't I am considering doing a full clean > install. It is very annoying! > > Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
