On Monday 27 August 2012, Scott D. Henning wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion to try CentOS Live CD to test sound
> card  compatibility for on-board audio. However,  It will
> not even load on the proposed system. It hung at a blue
> screen. The trial system has an Atom processor which may be
> the hitch.

Probably.

Linux runs on lots of processors with different instruction 
sets.  They are usually SOURCE compatible, not BINARY 
compatible.

==== wikipedia quote ====
Atom implements the x86 (IA-32) instruction set; x86-64 is so 
far only activated for the desktop Diamondville and desktop and 
mobile Pineview cores. The Atom N2xx and Z5xx series Atom models 
cannot run x86-64 code.[20]
==== end quote ====

The Live CD is for the "x86-64" instruction set.On Monday 27 

> I note a Ubuntu package and Ubuntu IS running on the trial
> system, so  that is what I will try next.

Make sure you get the correct version.  You need to match both 
the CPU and the version of Ubuntu.

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