Heather Reed wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I hope you can help with this one :-)) I am very new to linux -
> installed Mandrake 8.0 yesterday on a 550mHz athlon system. All has gone
> smoothly so far except for audio. The SBLive driver seems to be installed
> and is in the hardware list in KDE, but I get no sound, and the mixer window
> is empty. It looks like I have to do something else, but am not sure what!
> I've trawled through help pages on the web, but I'm not expert at Unix
> command line stuff <yet> :-)). Please could someone help, or point me to an
> 'idiots guide' to get my card going?
> Many thanks for any and all assistance
> Heather
Usually, you can run 'sndconfig" as root, from a terminal (I've had it told to
me that means NOT from a shell on the KDE desktop either). That usually will
find your card and set it up.
My SB Xgamer Live works great here.
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