Hi, I've just installed RC3 and I'm having problems with sound.
I have a via686 AC97 motherboard sound chip using an Athlon 1.2 Ghz. I used Mandrake Control Centre to change the sound driver from OSS to ALSA. Curriously the pull down option in the sound config program only showed the OSS driver but when I said OK it changed the modules.conf to the ALSA driver and deleted the OSS driver !! Anyway, if I run Tuxracer, the sound is OK. If I run in KDE aRts then sound is reasonable although does breakup ( this occurs on MDK 8.2 too ) If I run in Gnome ESD then sound is just digital noise. ESD works in MDK 8.2 on this hardware. If I run Realplayer then the start-up sound is OK ( Realplayer set to OSS driver ) but if I try to playback a .ram then sound is digital noise. In MDK 8.2 Realplayer works OK. Apart from sound problems, RC3 looks good. I notice RC3 found the firewire chips on my motherboard and installed a driver. Shame I don't have any firewire devices to test it !! Any ideas ? Regards, Dean.
