Thankyou for that information and yor consideration for posting this 
information.I will give this a try.
Thankyou,
Holland

> Henry Holland Simms wrote:
>
>> I have used Mandrake since building my 'puter.However I started with 
>> 8.2 powerpack then 9.1 then 10.0 and 10.1 I cannot get my sound to 
>> work and it is hit or miss on keeping the printer going with 
>> 10-10.1.It has been very frustrating as I have been trying to get 
>> sound since July,to no avail many mandrake'experts tell me that my 
>> audigy card is not supported yet it worked on 8.2 and 9.1.I have 3 
>> harddrives each with a different distro of mandrake.It also seems 
>> that 8.2 was better at getting RPM's loaded as under 10 I load the 
>> RPM's and then get dependency failure notices.8.2 seemed to warn you 
>> before or ask permission to load what it needed.I am very 
>> didinchantedI had hoped for an alternative to MSXP. Mandrake 8.2 with 
>> a later mozilla would be better for me than any subsequent mandrake 
>> distro.I personally cannot tell if kernal2.6 is much of an advance 
>> over 2.4 and my investment in mandrake 10 and services has been a 
>> waste of time and nervous energy,not to mention audigy EX platinum 
>> and a high-end THX speaker set-up.
>
>
> This is probably an example of the problem with distros.
>
> They try to make things simple, but these things are not complicated 
> to begin with, and if the simplification doesn't work, your are out of 
> luck.
>
> Getting ALSA to work is a matter of having the correct stuff in your: 
> "/etc/modules.conf" file.  This is simple to do, you just copy and 
> paste from the ALSA web site:
>
> IIUC, this is what you need for your sound card:
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Audigy2+ZS+Value.&chip=emu10k2%2C+P17&module=emu10k1 
>
>
>         # ALSA portion
>         alias char-major-116 snd
>         alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>         # module options should go here
>
>         # OSS/Free portion
>         alias char-major-14 soundcore
>         alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
>         # card #1
>         alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
>         alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
>         alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
>         alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
>         alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> -- 
> JRT
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