On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Marcos Vinicius Amorim Ferreira Guimaraes wrote: >Hi ALL, > >yesterday I installed Mandrake 7.1 on 64Mb K6-II 500 Mhz machine. >But my SoundBlaster card don't work. > >What i need to do? Is necessary recompile linux kernel how some HOW-TOs >docs about sound and soundblaster said? I'm really newbie and scared when >i hear some kernel things! When you are in X, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, log into the textmode console as root, and then run "sndconfig". This should help you detect the card and get things going. Works for me and so many others :) Then log out, and press Ctrl-Alt-F7 again to get back to X Paul -- We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is - Fatal exception error in MSBORG32.DLL http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30