If you have a SBLive card and MDK8.1, this should fix the problem.  
http://mandrakeforum.com/comments.php?
op=showreply&tid=19458&sid=1348&pid=19453&mode=&order=&thold=&lang=en#19458
Basically, there was a broken version of emu10k1-tools on the download CDs.

> This is a fairly trivial question, but never mind. Way back on our 
Mandrake 
> 7.2 installation, in KDE we had Bass and Treble controls, but I've never 
> seen the feature since. Although we can use the equaliser in a lot of 
> programmes, not all have them. Does anyone know where we can get an X 
mixer 
> that can do this?
> 
> cheers then! :)
> anarchist tomato
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