OT: Mandrake 9.1

[Alex Martelli]

Irmen de Jong wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
>> Yep, it was me.  I installed it on a brand-new machine and is seems to
>> be doing just fine (except that I can't get it to do sound -- within KDE,
>> haven't tried other ways -- in any form).
> 
> You have an ISA sound card, by any chance? It wouldn't recognise my
> old ISA SB AWE 64 either. After installing the "sndconfig" package
> myself and using the "sndconfig" tool, I got it to work.
> 
> Mdk 9.1 had no problem recognising my PCI / onboard sound chip.

Nope -- cheap PCI Soundblaster in one box, AC97 gizmo in the other.
But thanks for the attempt to help!  Guess I'll eventually try
sndconfig to see if it can help understand what's going on...


Alex