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- Subject: Re: Powerbook FAQ (New serial port answer!)
- Message-ID: <zaphod-130892191811@gregt.winona.msus.edu>
- From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:23:02 -0600
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- In article <1992Aug9.055241.13488@gallant.apple.com>, dodd@apple.com (Mike
- Dodd) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Aug7.181021.14826@nntp.hut.fi>, jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
- > > Q: Can the annoying speaker click be disabled somehow?
- > > A: The click usually results from the power saving system that shuts off the
- > > sound circuitry. So far, no one has developed a means to keep the sound
- > > chip on all the time. Basically you could just write a program that keeps
- > > making silence (playing a silent sound), but you have to remember that this
- > > would still waste quite a lot of power.
- >
- >
- > jim reekes wrote an extension that was at MacHack that fixes this problem.
- > it keeps the sound chip on all the time, so it wastes some power, but i think
- > it was only on the order of 5% or something (i don't have a PB, so don't
- > remember for sure).
-
-
- Where would one look for this hack, because I would love to used. To
- hell with the batter waste, that random click is _much_ too annoying!
-
-
- - Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
- [The opinions expressed above are my own, and do not necessarily reflect
- the
- opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona State University, its faculty,
- staff or students.]
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