[plug] Mandrake LE2005 Sound

[Chris Griffin]

Oh, I should have mentioned that I gave up on the on-board sound card long
ago. Can't go past the good old SoundBlasters.

On 9/23/05, David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
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> I've had an absolute gutful of trying to get consistency in the sound
> system.
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> The sound is on the motherboard, ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio
> Controller, maybe my problems relate to this.
> My last report to this list was of thanks to those of you who offered
> help. I had sound for mouth, playing cd's and headphones and mike worked,
> but no midi. I was able to complete one skype-out call and now nothing -
> seems as though KDE takes control, /dev/dsp in use by another process, and
> amarok returns the message 'The file or folder /Full CD does not exist' but
> indicates that the sound is being played.
>
> It's too bloody complicated for me!
>
> MAybe I should buy a sound card (with hardware synth to avoid further
> difficulty when I finally get consistent sound and have to move on to
> Rosegardsen's synth and sound font requirements).
>
> Is anyone able to advise on a suitable card please?
>
> regards
> Dave Dartnall
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