praedor wrote: > A quick reply to myself... > I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about > my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none > of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. > > I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific tool (sounddrake) wont interface > and work with the "preferred" Mandrake soundsystem (alsa), however. > > praedor > > On Sunday 03 December 2000 04:17 pm, you wrote: > > [...] > > I have removed my AudioPCI and enabled my ac97 builtin sound (AOpen AK72 > > motherboard with a via chipset for an Athlon) I have downloaded, built, > > and installed the latest alsa drivers, etc. I have loaded the proper > > modules for it - after running "modprobe snd-card-via686a" I now have these > [...] > > I have unmuted everything in the alsamixer. Result: nothing. No sound. > > The mic doesn't work either. Sound system is DOA. > [...] > > Here's one for the Mandrake developers: Why in the world is it that > > Mandrake appears to be going to alsa yet sounddrake doesn't work for alsa? > > You cannot setup your soundcard using sounddrake, a Mandrake-specific > > config tool, if you are using alsa, the standard base Mandrake sound > > system? It only works if you are using oss as your sound driver base. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Congrats, Praedor. However, noone's responded to my problem of losing sound settings and re-muting the mixers. The only workaround I've found so far is with KDE, opening kmix & docking it in the panel. Sure hope some sound-guru is pondering this issue.
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