Hi, I've been encountering a rather peculiar fault with sound in Mandrake 8. Following an entirely fresh reinstallation which correctly detected the card's chipset as Trident Microsystems 4DWave NX, I noticed that kscd was mute. Opening kmix, turning up all of the faders to maximum (while checking none had been set to mute), saving the configuration as the new default and rebooting, I then noticed that while kscd was working properly, RealPlayer, Noatum (the KDE media player) and xmms were mute, despite the files' "output" being displayed on the analyser/oscilloscope. HardDrake configuration tool's 8-bit sample was, unsurprisingly, also silent. It's enough to make you want to go out and buy SuSE 7.2. [joke] Michael
