[NTLUG:Discuss] [DFWUUG:Discuss] AC97 codec on HP Pavillion..

[Daniel Hauck]

Alvin Goats さんは書きました:
> The HP machine HD is *extremely* thoroughly wiped:
> 
> Western Digital Diagnostics floppy disk tools, writing 0's over the 
> entire drive.
> 
> Partitioned with Linux fdisk to have a 150M swap partition and a 27G 
> partition, ext2 filesystem.
> 
> Slackware 11.0 installed from DVD, Drop-line Gnome installed from the 
> internet.
> 
> FULL install, X conffigured for i810 video from the HP motherboard. 
> 
> The AC97 codec is enabled in the BIOS, but not found and loaded by alsa.
> 
> This machine will run Linux, but it has tons of trouble with M$-Windows 
> (3.11, 95, 98,...). So, Linux it is, just don't have sound.
> 
> Alvin

One possibility is that may be missing is that the machine is simply
broken.  Linux and Microsoft OSes handle hardware errors differently.
Microsoft just blue-screens and/or crashes without reporting the cause
to the user.  Linux often reports the problem somewhere and disables the
device or sometimes reports the problem repeatedly in logs with entries
like "last error repeated 46 times" and stuff like that.

It could simply be that Windows is less tolerant of problems.  You might
try disabling sound in the BIOS to see if Windows becomes stable.