my sound balster live seems to work fine, there have been some probles with
it though, you can get the latest drivers from soundblaster.
i'm not sure whats up with the floppy drive,
and what type of cd-rom drive do you have.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 April 2000 00:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
>
>
> Hi,
>
> just installed 7.0 from the CD that comes with the Sams
> "teach yourself
> mandrake in 24 hours". The install went pretty well-
> partitioned my drive,
> picked up my network card, zip drive (i think!), network
> config worked first
> time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine
> so far except the
> three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive
> My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come
> out as tones - no
> bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is
> an SB Live!.
> Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any
> attempt comes back with
> the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a
> valid block
> device"
> Help ! I would really like to find out what is happening here.
>
> Thanks,
> philomena
>
