A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific tool (sounddrake) wont interface and work with the "preferred" Mandrake soundsystem (alsa), however. praedor On Sunday 03 December 2000 04:17 pm, you wrote: [...] > I have removed my AudioPCI and enabled my ac97 builtin sound (AOpen AK72 > motherboard with a via chipset for an Athlon) I have downloaded, built, > and installed the latest alsa drivers, etc. I have loaded the proper > modules for it - after running "modprobe snd-card-via686a" I now have these [...] > I have unmuted everything in the alsamixer. Result: nothing. No sound. > The mic doesn't work either. Sound system is DOA. [...] > Here's one for the Mandrake developers: Why in the world is it that > Mandrake appears to be going to alsa yet sounddrake doesn't work for alsa? > You cannot setup your soundcard using sounddrake, a Mandrake-specific > config tool, if you are using alsa, the standard base Mandrake sound > system? It only works if you are using oss as your sound driver base.
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