> Sound Card:  Ya, mandrake can be like that.  Has it just not recognized it
> altogether or is it just not making sound?  For example, with xmms I had to
> switch my Output Plugin to OSS from aRts

Yeah, you gotta have sound. I could never fully migrate to linux until I got 
mine working. But then it was all rough sailing from there.

Mandrake uses Alsa by default (which I like, but a lot of others don't), so 
the first question is whether there's alsa support for your card (chipset). 
You can find that out at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
You can use straight oss if must be, though in my experience it rarely has any 
better support for soundcards, and it's not near as cool.

Don't forget to do some web searches for "linux [your card]", etc.
        
Good luck.

-James Nickerson



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