Greetings all, I installed Mandrake 9 last week, and I have almost nothing to complain about. However, I have managed to frell something up already -- or found a bug, take your pick.
I decided to get my rear speakers to work, so I went looking at the mixer settings, the aRts soundserver, the sound card in HardDrake, etc. I did manage to find the right mixer settings, but after that I decided to see what sound I'd get with a different driver. So, I changed the sound driver using the config tool in harddrake. It's now set to "snd-emu10k1 (EMU10K1)", and it says above that this is the OSS driver. Of course, after I changed the driver, I noticed the sound quality I was getting out of XMMS was noticeably worse than before, so I went to change it back (presumably to ALSA, though I can't remember the exact string it was set at), and I was unable to do so. There is now only 1 option to set the driver to in HardDrake, and it's the one I'm currently using. What's odd is that the "Information" box for the sound card lists "audigy:emu10k1" under "Alternative drivers", but, as I said, there's no such listing in the config tool. Any help with regard to HardDrake and Mandrake's implementation of OSS and ALSA would be appreciated. I went over to www.alsa-project.org to find out how set it up manually, but I'm afraid what documentation they had was pretty complicated -- I imagine I could get it working with some effort, but I'm hoping I can get Mandrake to set it up for me. I'm using a vanilla Creative Sound Blaster Live in an Alienware system. Thanks in advance, Ed Halter
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