On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:42:47PM -0500, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > Here's my problem: my linux box (Mandrake 8.1, with Mandrake's > kernel version 2.4.8-34mdk), under conditions of heavy load, and > especially when printing, will start beeping the system bell, VERY > LOUD (actually VERY VERY VERY VERY LOUD). Usually this will stop > eventually, but may be so deafening, that I will reboot to make it > stop. Cripes, that's kind of drastic. > Any clues about how to disable this behavior? Sit on your hands? :-) > I can't figure out how the heck it comes to pass. There's nothing > in my system logs to indicate any system distress, and everything > seems to run hunky-dory. Any messages on console? I guess I find it hard to believe there's somthing crying out like that and leaving no log whatsoever. If this were my system I'd start by: 1. figuring out how to reproduce the problem reliably 2. start shutting off services while "driving the problem", and seeing when the problem stops 3. repeat until I know exactly what service is misbehaving 4. reconfigure the service to not do that But I run Debian so I never have to do that. :-) > It's a celeron 450 on an ASUS motherboard. I'd hate to have to muck > with it, but I'm getting desperate enough to try to snip off the > beeper if that's what it takes.... The speaker may just unplug. :-) -- trammell at el-swifto.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Mailing List http://www.mn-linux.org Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota irc.openprojects.net #tclug