On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:13, you wrote:
> 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
I actually get the impression that windows will install on systems with
hardware problems, where Linux will hard lock during the install process.
I've seen at least 2 systems where Linux won't install, like it's probing
hardware and finds a problem, but windows installs just fine.
So far, this is just a theory, but I know windows can do strange things as
far as recognizing hardware, and then when it misidentifies it, it uses it as
something else.
