> I bought the Novatech Xplora E16 laptop a few days ago and installed > Ubuntu (32bit). > > There was an irritating periodic soft beep every 30 secs or so. Putting > my ear to the laptop I could hear a motor start after the beep which > stopped just before beeping again and repeating. I thought that there > was a problem with power management. > > Without really knowing what was going on I found several references to > laptop-mode-tools and installing that cured the beep . I do not know why > but if somebody has an explanation I would be very interested to hear it. >
Absolutely no idea, however it could be the motor itself 'beeping'.
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