I am a newbie who is delighted as to how easily Mandrake 7.1 installed and
configured itself. The one subsystem than did not configure itself
automatically was sound. I noticed on this list that I was not alone in
this. By reading and trying I stumbled on the way to make this happen and
am therefore sharing it with others.
You need to run, as root, "sndconfig". But you cannot run it from a
xwindows. Therefore do the following:
1. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 (This will take you to a non graphic login
screen)
2. login as root by entering "root" and your root password.
3. type "sndconfig" and press enter.
4. follow the screen instructions. In my case the card it found was not
the one I had (Sound Blaster) and there was no way to change it but when I
accepted it, I got SOUND !!
I am still a Linux newbie but my guess is that Mandrake's database of names
of sound cards may be wrong (naming one card for another) and that may be
why the install does not install sound correctly, but my knowledge is very
limited here.
If others find this works for them, it should probably posted wherever
Mandrake posts bug reports. I would, but do not know how.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
