Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1640 mails)

["Mark V" <mvyver@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld
<suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2008 schrieb Mark V:
>
> > [...]
> > In Firefox (SUSE/3.0-1.3 Firefox/3.0), while moving the mouse around a
> > page I hear a _very_ faint background sound.
> > The only Firefox Add-ons I have installed are Delicious and Tab mix plus.
> > [...]
> > To give a more accurate description of the sound I've tried turning up
> > the volume using Kmix, to no avail.
> > [...].
>
> Hence, it seams the sound is not caused or emitted by the speakers. Do you
> use a laptop? Often, they have got a very fast reacting fan control. Thus,
> I can hear my laptop working sometimes. Especially, if there is a periodic
> load in contrast to a constant one:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_pitch_noises
> moving windows or just the mouse in xorg
> strange noise like a rapid series of very short high pitch noises adding to
> a constant kind of whistling (only as long as the movement goes)
>
> Above, there are some hints to get rid of the noises. And, google "firefox
> linux high pitch noise mouse moving" (without the qoutes).

Thanks Jan,
This forum thread suggested the fix:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678170


In my case I unplugged my monitor's audio cable.  I now use different speakers.
All very unexpected... but great that the noise is gone :)

Thanks
Mark

> HTH
>  Jan
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