Ok, 3rd time's the charm MAYBE.
Unfortunately, my patience with Mandrake has reached an end. Certain 
applications require play (/usr/bin/play), which **gasp** someone decided to 
play with?

Once again (for the third time), how do I get this configured to WORK 
correctlY? Considering someone up there decided they knew everything and that 
they should mess with something that worked PERFECTLY, it is now up to that 
someone to respond.

Certain applications rely on play (again /usr/bin/play), some actually rely on 
the OSS drivers. Some are even ((gasp)) binary applications meaning they CAN 
NOT be changed.  One VERY common application like that is crossover. Since 
the change, NOTHING for sound has come out of that.. -=THAT=- is enough to 
drive me back to a decent OS that actually (gasp) WORKS out of the box and 
doesn't mess with that which WORKS correctly (sound for one). Applications 
like this, I gladly (GLADLY) pay for. Applications that don't provide basic 
driver support, or half assed support for said drivers I pay nothing for. 
Applications (or operating systems)  that refuse to LISTEN to what their 
users are saying I pay nothing for, and no attention to.

Since I started using Mandrake, I have seen nothing but problems. Failure to 
unmount devices properly, failure to do many things properly. Now, this just 
takes the cake. You take a driver that WAS working, and you trash it. For 
WHAT reason? So, those of us that REQUIRE the drivers for this card are told 
what, to go buy a new card? I don't think so!!

I realize that life as a tech is damn near impossible (I AM one), but I also 
realize that there is NO reason to "fix" something or "modify" somthing that 
works 100%, which up untill this last release sound HAS done. Now, someone, 
PLEASE explain to me why I all of the sudden have HALF ASSED sound support 
(right out of the box mind you). I'd LOVE to hear the explanation for this.

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