On Thursday 12 July 2001 16:30, you wrote:
> Dippy,
>
> Have you tried experimenting with the alsa sound drivers that are on my
> web page? I can't build those into the distro due to conflicts with the
> other architectures, but I'm going to try maintaining them personally, as
> the kernels progress. Some of the newer machines have sound hardware that
> is not compatible with dmasound or dmasound_awacs, so the alsa drivers are
> an alternative. I know some other PPC distro's are now using
> dmasound_pmac, but I haven't had an opportunity to look at how I might
> patch this into the Mandrake kernel.
>
> Stew Benedict
I didn't know if I should even mess with the alsa stuff if I couldn't get
system bells to work. I couldn't get the xmms stuff to work. I will give it
a whirl.