[CentOS] Server hangs initializing audio

Wed Oct 11 17:06:36 UTC 2006
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
>   
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>     
>>> There is no on-board audio.  This machine has NO audio hardware at
>>> all. 
>>>
>>> Bowie
>>>
>>>
>>> Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I got around these hangs by disabling on-board audio int the
>>>> machine setup. 
>>>>
>>>>         
>> Wow, that's pretty strange then.  What motherboard is it?  Maybe you
>> need to install an audio card.  :)
>>     
>
> The motherboard is a Tyan Thunder K8HM.  It's a dual-Opteron server
> board.
>
> Just what I want to do... add an audio card to a rack-mounted server!
> :)
>   

I had some dodgy Tyan K8WE and K8HM boards that would randomly wedge on 
a soft reset.  Updating the bios to whatever was freshest at the time 
made it better.

Cheers,