Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6

From: Alex Riesen
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 19:47:21 EST


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:32:10 +0200, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there any way to stop this? I googled around and found it had
> > something to do with idle frequency of 1000 Hz in 2.6 instead of 100Hz
> > in the 2.4 kernel. I couldn't find much else on this. Hunting around the
> > code didn't help much, I don't know C.
>
> Change #define HZ 1000 to #define HZ 100...

Helped an Asus S1300N. Not sure it's gone completely, but it's more
comfortable now.

To the original poster: look in include/asm/param.h
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