Since I'm new to the list this may be common knowledge, but here goes
anyway...
If you can't find a driver for your soundcard, in my case ESS Maestro-3 on a
new Dell Inspiron laptop (Mandrake 7.0-2), check out OSS by 4Front
Technologies (www.opensound.com). I looked everywhere but not even ALSA (is
that what they're called?) supported this card. However, OSS did :). The
software's not free but its only $20 or so, and you can test it for free. It
says they don't compile explicitly for Mandrake, but it worked for me. It's
not an RPM but the install script solved everything for me, except it found
two cards so I had to remove one using the configure script (menu based, so
it was easy). The readme and install info are good and worth looking
through. You have to disable the kernel sound modules, but the install
script does that for you, if you let it.
Cheers,
Olof
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