Hi,
I'm going to quickly gain the reputation of a guy that likes to complain
about sound card setups, but hey, what can I say? :-)
Here is the problem I noticed. I tried installing Mandrake 8.2 RC1 on my
laptop, after removing Mandrake 8.1 (it was a new install, not in upgrade).
In Mandrake 8.1, the ESS Maestro 2E sound card included in my Dell Inspiron
5000e worked great, however there are some problems with it in 8.2 RC1.
It seems that the Maestro 2E uses ALSA (yay!), which is really great.
However, the default setup does not setup OSS Emulation, thus meaning many -
if not most - Linux multimedia apps, including XMMS, simply do not work. Now,
I plan on adding OSS Emulation to modules.conf myself but this could be a
very serious problem if this is not done automatically, IMO.
Further more any attempt to redetect the card in Harddrake fails, saying
the card can not be detected (!). Apparently insmod thinks that the card does
not exist when chosen from the list of Cards (harddrake correctly highlights
the right card).
The Maestro 2E is a seemingly very popular sound card for notebooks, and
works well in Linux, however with the changes in Mandrake 8.2 RC1 it is
relegated to a nearly useless card for most intents and purposes for your
average user.
Thanks,
Tim
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