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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Beeps?
To: frappuhn@tir.com (Fred Rappuhn)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:44:17 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <31FF5687.767E@tir.com> from "Fred Rappuhn" at Jul 31, 96 08:50:15 am
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> I have had FreeBSD on my system for about a month now.  I have been
> tweaking it constantly so I don't know exactly what I did to make the
> following happen.
> 
> It seems that after my computer has been sitting idle for a while it
> will start beeping (Constantly).....  If I go into my office and hit any
> key then it goes a way.
> 
> Someone told me it might be the way it is polling my keyboard to see if
> it should wake up.  I don't know where to start.

Try swapping the keyboard with another machine.  You could just have
a keyboard going south...

--don