On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Mike Perry wrote: > Is there currently any way to disable busmastering or C3 transitions > (without recompilation)? Or better: is it possible to make the system > less eager to transition into C3 or otherwise reduce the frequency of > these transitions? If I could just get the frequency of transitions to > get out of the audible range, my life would be a lot better.
Read http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_pitch_noises, it may have the answers. > Please understand it really is quite annoying, and I doubt the > manufacturer is going to have any mercy because their Windows install > doesn't have the problem.. If Windows is doing as aggressive power management as Linux, or even more aggressive power management, then we ought to find out what they're doing that is different and doesn't cause the noise. If it is just less aggressive power management, well, let's hope this changes soon. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
