On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:19:47 -0500, 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.
This is a Linux 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/
On item # 2 I call BULL****!!!!!!