[ydl-gen] OT?? Hardware question : b;inkety-blink

[Eric Dunbar]

On 8/30/05, beartooth <beartooth at adelphia.net> wrote:
> The little light on the front of my 2002 G3 iBook, below the keyboard, is
> blinking away at about two blinks per second; and there's also a slight
> sound. I'm not actually running YDL; but my guess is that this is a
> hardware question, not an OS question. Right? If so, is it some sort of
> alarm? It seems too demanding of attention to be anything else ....
> 
> If not, my apologies for posting off-topic. :-(

Are you running another variant of Linux or OS X? At one point Ubuntu
used the sleep light as an HD indicator light (a kernel modification)
but that was short lived -- a number of us were driven to the brink of
insanity so it got removed post-haste.

Eric.