On Thursday 21 March 2002 06:08 am, you wrote:
> I have tested Cooker for awhile now and I downloaded the release 8.2 ISO's
> and they went in without any problems. I kind of find it a bit sluggish at
> times
> but then again what do you expect with a K62-300 and 256 MB ram.
> I'm really satisfied with the product and I will bring it into my shop to
> resell it
> as soon as its avilable in boxed format.
>
> The only _minor_ glitch that I found was when installing it on a system
> that has onboard "Built-in AC97 Digital Audio (by VT82C686B)"
> (Epox 8KTA3+Pro board). The sound would come out kind of low and I
> would get like (sounds funny) *puff* sounds out of my speakers.
> Well thats the best I can explain the sound. Maybe it could be some kind of
> static or the sounddriver sends out some kind of signal every so often.
>
> I didn't try the Release version on a board like this, maybe the gotten
> better with
> the newer kernel.
>
> Also when installing a Realtek 10/100 network card in the PCI slot next to
> the
> AGP card seem to slow the system down when running Linux . Probobly cause
> they both use the same IRQ. I guess its something to do with the IRQ
> sharing (Windows doesn't have this problem with sharing IRQ's).
Windows may not exibit the problem but that doesn't mean it isn't there. I'm
sure civilme could expound more but this is a common misconception. All in
not well in the windows world it just hides problems better.
>
> /MattB
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