January 4th 20, 07:29 PM
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The Stench Of Linux - How To burn Up Your Chromebook With Linux
On 04/01/2020 19.44, roach wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 18:31:43 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh
wrote:
On 2020-01-04, roach wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 18:09:33 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh
wrote:
On 2020-01-04, R.Wieser wrote:
William,
That is a hardware fault, not a software problem. If the system
it dumping sufficient current through you speakers to fry them,
that has nothing to do with software.
Not quite.
If the audio output doesn't return to a zero voltage difference (when paused
or no audio being played) than a directly-coupled amplifier (no series
capacitor) will transfer that DC voltage (amplified ofcourse) to the
speakers, quite likely causing them to heat up.
And that is a hardware fault. No amplifier should deliver DC to a
speaker. It is idiotic from many points of view.
You seem to keep missing the point. Per the thread:
1. Chrome OS worked fine.
2. LinuxMint overloaded the speakers and made them smoke and smell.
3. Installing an alternative .asound file found on some obscure site
fixed the problem.
That chromeOS has a workaround to a hardware fault is fine (they could
hardly sell the system if it did not). That does not alter the fact that
feeding DC through speakers is a hardware fault. That that obscure
.asound file also has a workaround to that same fault is good. But that
does not make the problem a software problem. It means that software can
be used to mitigate a hardware problem sometimes.
This is a Linux problem.
No it is a hardware problem, which as you have discovered, there is a
Linux fix which is a workaround to that hardware problem.
And it's not the first time that Linux has been destroying hardware.
Linux's poor fan control has been overheating laptops for ages.
https://itsfoss.com/reduce-overheating-laptops-linux/
That says nothing about poor fan control. The article states that the
fan is working as hard as it can ("As the mercury rises in the summer
season, the fan speed of the computer goes nuts."), but the laptop is
still overheating. That is a hardware fault again.
You might want to read the comments where several people state they
have no problems with Windows on the same laptop.
Still a hardware problem with a software workaround.
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Cheers, Carlos.
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