Re: [TCLUG:4769] mouse/HDD noise

[Hugh Johnson <hugh@semplicesoft.com>]

I'll speculate. The kernel is only optimized for the configuartion it 
found at last compile or install. There are backup routines to allow 
the mouse driver to function if it's called by a circuitous route, 
but it's not the cleanest code in the world, and a true geek would 
tell you you ought to recompile.

Either that, or the little squirrel in the cage that powers your hard 
drive is lonely for his fellow rodent the mouse, and they have to go 
through extra gyrations to talk through the new port hole.



> My girlfriend, who I've been trying to make a Linux convert of for a
> couple years now, has a question she needs answered.
>
> She's been running RedHat Linux 5.2 and Windows 95 in a dual-boot
> configuration on a Pentium system for about 2 months.  Recently she needed
> to make available a serial port, so she removed the serial port adapter
> from her Logitech MouseMan trackball, and plugged the trackball into the
> PS/2 port on the motherboard.
>
> Now when she uses Windows, everything's okay.  But when she uses Linux,
> whether in X or at the console with gpm, she hears a noise when she moves
> the mouse.  After removing the cover from her PC and putting her ear near
> its innards, she's determined that the noise is not coming from the
> internal modem speaker or the PC speaker.  It seems to be coming from the
> the hard drives.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
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