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Linux Mandrake & Sound Card

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by mcintyrem 1 view

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I just installed Linux Mandrake on my system and cannot seem to get my soundcard to function. When I am using a console, I type in setup to look for the sound configuration, but the sound configuration is not an option to choose from. When I am using KDE, I open the Mandrake Control Center. Here there are several options, when I go down to Sound Card, my sound card is listed and it says that it is working properly, but I cant get any sound. Is there any help out there to get this thing to work.

I know I can get it to work with RedHat, but not on Mandrake. This is quite interesting because in RedHat I had problems with my printer. With Mandrake I have problems with my sound card. I guess it goes to show the differences between different kinds of Linux.

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by d_v ant

I had a similar problem with Mandrake 7.2 and the SoundBlaster Live sound card. I downloaded and installed the Opensound driver and had no problem. BTW, my Live card works fine in Mandrake 8.1
you can download the open sound driver at www.opensound.com

Hope this helps

by mcintyrem

Thank you for this resource. After installing this driver, my soundcard worked immediately.

by matthew i

Test the sound card as root, and if it works then you just need to add your user account to the audio group and give your self access to the sound hardware.

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