ADDITIONAL! Re: High pitched sound when moving mouse!

Victor Germani (vgermani@roch875.mc.xerox.com)
Tue, 04 Nov 1997 12:43:41 -0800 (PST)

Just to answer the question that almost everyone has been asking...the sound
is not coming from the mouse itself! It DEFINATELY comes from the main
computer and unless I'm very wrong, the enterprise 4000 does not have an
internal speaker.

Thanks again.

> This is not really a problem but I'm very curious why it is
> happening.
>
> I have an Ultra Enterprise 4000 with 4 CPUs a bunch of
> internal disks, a few external disks and tape drives. I am
> running Solaris 2.5.1 and CDE 1.0. When I click anywhere on
> the background of the CDE window with my left mouse button I
> hear a high pitched squeal. If I hold the button down and
> drag the mouse as if I were selecting something the squeal
> continues with my mouse movement. It sounds almost like
> someone raking their fingernails on a chalkboard.
>
> Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this to
> happen? Is there some sort of "set mouse_squeal=True"
> feature (grin)?

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Vic Germani
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