1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
12:23 p.m.
Hey,
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound, pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Is it right that there is one fan in the T61, on the left of the
keyboard? Then a other noise source might be the hdd on the right.
It's not that my T61 is very noisy, it isn't very silent either. Maybe
I could change the hdd.
Best regards,
\r
1 Oct
1 Oct
1:24 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM, rosea grammostola
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound,
pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Many Thinkpads (and other laptops as well) emit high-pitched noise
when the CPU periodically goes into power save mode. As far as I know
there is no real solution. You can change some kernel or BIOS settings
to (partially) disable power saving, but that might reduce your
battery life quite significantly.
I once had a similar problem which could also be "solved" by plugging
in USB devices. Turns out there was a bug in the USB kernel driver
which caused continuous CPU wake-ups, and thus prevented the CPU from
going into deep sleep modes. This stopped the noise, but also
increased power consumtion by a couple of watts...
Incidentally, another way to keep the CPU awake is to simply run JACK :)
This page has a lot more information and many potential workarounds:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_pitch_noises
Dominic
1:30 p.m.
rosea grammostola wrote:
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound, pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Could be an IRQ conflict. What does 'cat /proc/interrupts' report ?
What does lsusb report ?
Best,
dp
1:56 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
rosea grammostola wrote:
When disabling usb 1, the noise is almost totally gone... That looks better.
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 130819 131607 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 998 1032 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 1198 1232 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 53032 52926 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 5238 4891 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 64 60 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
17: 100 112 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, HDA Intel
19: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
20: 79 84 IO-APIC-fasteoi
22: 2915 2545 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
29: 590 599 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
30: 8114 7995 PCI-MSI-edge i915
31: 20779 20776 PCI-MSI-edge iwlagn
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 106919 55400 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 2262 1781 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 14 58 Function call interrupts
TLB: 719 860 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 9 9 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0
# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound, pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Could be an IRQ conflict. What does 'cat /proc/interrupts' report ?
What does lsusb report ?
Best,
dp
2:04 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:56 PM, rosea grammostola
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
In the BIOS all pci devices are set to IRQ 11. Other options are
numbers 1 - 11 or auto or disabled (afaik)
Dunno if that setting is right.
\r
rosea grammostola wrote:
When disabling usb 1, the noise is almost totally gone... That looks better.
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 130819 131607 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 998 1032 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 1198 1232 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 53032 52926 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 5238 4891 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 64 60 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
17: 100 112 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, HDA Intel
19: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
20: 79 84 IO-APIC-fasteoi
22: 2915 2545 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
29: 590 599 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
30: 8114 7995 PCI-MSI-edge i915
31: 20779 20776 PCI-MSI-edge iwlagn
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 106919 55400 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 2262 1781 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 14 58 Function call interrupts
TLB: 719 860 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 9 9 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0
# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound, pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Could be an IRQ conflict. What does 'cat /proc/interrupts' report ?
What does lsusb report ?
Best,
dp
5:27 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
rosea grammostola wrote:
....
lolwut?
Monty
My thinkpad t61 makes a high frequency sound, pipipipipippi, not very
loud. Funny thing, when I stick in the usb mouse, it's gone... I only
have this issue when on battery. Suggestions for solution?
Could be an IRQ conflict. What does 'cat /proc/interrupts' report ?
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