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Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't

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vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> So there I was, dual-booted into Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium playing
> _Just Cause 2_, when the program exited with an exception.
>
> "That's weird", I thought.  "Maybe it was the graphics driver I just
> upgraded to."
>
> So I back-graded the graphics driver, and played some more.  A few
> minutes later -- Pop!  goes the exception.
>
> I was streaming on twitch with a bunch of friends looking on, and we all
> agreed that JC2 just doesn't do this sort of thing.  Clearly, there was
> something odd about my machine.
>
> After verifying the game cache in Steam, I started looking at hardware.
>  And hey, wasn't that weird that the ASUS monitoring app wasn't
> registering any chassis fans?
>
> So I looked -- and NONE OF THE CHASSIS FANS WERE SPINNING.
>
> Booted to Linux, fans started spinning.
>
> I'd seen a message over the last few days, whenever booted to Windows,
> that the Core1 temperature was 80C.  I'd only been playing
> Elite:Dangerous, which didn't seem to mind the situation.  Additionally,
> I'd been a bonehead and not investigated why my machine seemed so much
> quieter while booted to Win7.
>
> The fix?  Hard power cycle.  Now the fans spin in Windows.
>
> Now, about the subject line above, "Linux worked while Windows didn't".
>  These wintroll clowns are always talking about their hardware works
> properly in Windows, but not Linux.  Thus, I feel justified blaming
> Windows for what is clearly a chipset driver failure -- after all, it's
> a Windows driver!
>
> Toodles.

I had an issue that was more "democratic" recently.  I hooked up my Canon
LiDE 210 to my relatively new ASUS laptop.  (1920x1080 matte screen,
i7, added an SSD drive, and it screams!)  The Preview function worked,
mostly.  But the scans would error out.  WTF?

I googled and saw that disabling the xHCI preboot mode would help.
And it worked.  Apparently an issue with USB 3.0, which is what this
laptop has, and the hub I use for connecting MIDI, USB audio, Bluetooth
dongles, wireless peripherals, also has.

Did Linux screw up?   Well, if it did, then so did Windows 8, where I found
a post that stated that the same kind of fix worked.

No matter, it was a 5-minute fix.

-- 
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
		-- Walt Kelly

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Linux worked while Windows didn't vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-03-31 13:03 -0700
  Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-31 16:15 -0400
  Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 20:30 +0000
  Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-03-31 20:08 -0400
    Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-04-01 02:18 +0200
      Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-04-01 06:09 -0400
  Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 00:11 +0000
    Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-31 21:37 -0400

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