Update: THE Roblimo owns one of these Compaq Presario 700 series laptops. He says the following regarding ALSA and Mandrake 8.2 compatibility.
----- Original Message ----- From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 4:32 AM Subject: Compaq 700 series laptop > I have a 700, and I assure you that the ALSA and kernel that ships with > Mandrake 8.2 won't work with its sound drivers. Since I have two other > laptops (both HP) with working sound, I haven't bothered to do the > kernel recompile it would take to get sound on the Presario. > > I also have not had good results with Mandrake 8.2 and power management > with this baby. IMO Mandrake hit its "laptop friendliest" at 8.0 and has > regressed since then. Oh, well. > > - Robin "Roblimo" Miller
