I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 official on my IBM T23. Overall, I'm impressed. The install was better than any other version of Mandrake I've tried since 6.1, and the end result is fast and seems quite stable. I'll have to compile the Lucent drivers, but other than that, most of what I want seems to work pretty well.
One problem I have hit is withh sound support. The sound drivers are loading, but sound under either Gnome or KDE is muted. I can get round the problem by opening aumix and (after initially setting the levels up and saving them) forcing a load. However, next time the laptop is booted, no sound until I go through the process again. Watching boot messages, I see an error coming from the mixed during boot - it is unable to locate /dev/mixer. Am I correct in assuming this is becuase udev has not created the correct device node at this point? I've tried adding "aumix -L" to rc.local, but it does not seem to be executed (well, if it is being executed it doesn't help) and I've also tried adding the same line to the Gnome session startup page (I use Gnome by default). This does work, but it affects the way Gnome loads. With the command in startup, the Gnome splash screen no longer clears and I suspect that not everything Gnome related is being loaded. I can click on the spash screen to get it to go away, but it seems that I either can't use the command were I've got it, or I need to alter the syntax. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem with sound startup, or is it peculiar to the T23? Also, can anyone suggest how I get rid of it completely? paul. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marwick Computer Services - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK OS/2, LAN and general Computer Consultants
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