Re: is it possible to turn off hearbeat?

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi Geert, hi Alan

Thanks a lot for your answers!

Alan wrote:
>> I wondered if it would be possible to turn off hearbeat (well just the
>> blinking LED in fact). I have read kernel-options.txt but no luck. Onc=
e
>> someone told me (was it Michel ;) ) that kernels can be compiled witho=
ut
>> heartbeat, but recompiling the kernel is definitely not the answer I w=
ant
>> to hear.. ;)
>=20
> activating the paula sound module should turn off heart-beat automagica=
lly
> :-)

#modprobe dmasound_core
#modprobe dmasound_paula
#modprobe sound

neither of them caused the power led to stop blinking :(.

Geert wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Andreas [iso-8859-1] W=FCst wrote:
>> But it's kind of making me nervous seeing the LED blinking in the corn=
er of
>> my eyes. Btw: AFAIK let the power LED blink is directly coupled with t=
he
>> low-pass filter. Isn't there any danger for it when switching it on an=
d off
>> so often?
>=20
> If you play audio, the heartbeat is automatically disabled to not inter=
fere
> with the sound.

Well, it seems that I not only have to have the modules loaded (I don't
know which of them btw.) but to play some sound too. It seems as you have=
 to
play Bach in repeat mode just to have the led not blinking..

There seems to be really no other option than recompiling the kernel..

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Is this correct EBNF? ;)


--=20
But thanks anyway! Best wishes,
Andi