Author: Chris Aitken Date: To: rogermunford, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] irritating periodic soft beep on Ubuntu 10.04 laptop
> I bought the Novatech Xplora E16 laptop a few days ago and installed > Ubuntu (32bit).
>
> There was an irritating periodic soft beep every 30 secs or so. Putting
> my ear to the laptop I could hear a motor start after the beep which
> stopped just before beeping again and repeating. I thought that there
> was a problem with power management.
>
> Without really knowing what was going on I found several references to
> laptop-mode-tools and installing that cured the beep . I do not know why
> but if somebody has an explanation I would be very interested to hear it.
>
Absolutely no idea, however it could be the motor itself 'beeping'.
