I just installed Mandrake 9.0 RC3 on fresh and the first thing I noticed is that there are no sounds while KDE is starting up. I checked the volumes with KMixer and they were all set to 0. I have Hercules Game Theater XP. Here is copy&paste from HardDrake:
Vendor: Cirrus Logic Alternative drivers: cs46xx Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1013:6003:1681:50 Location on the bus: 0:8:0 Description: CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] Module: snd-cs46xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I wonder why all the volumes have been set to 0 by default. It worked just fine in all prevoious betas and RCs.