[TriLUG] Sound Blaster on Mandrake 9

[Tanner Lovelace]

Raymond McGill wrote:

> Ok, here is the story. WhiteBox generic computer with fresh install of
> Mandrake 9. All works except sound card. Did find and there is no
> sndconfig anywhere to be found. I don't know of a way to manually
> enumerate an ISA bus. The missing sound card is an 8 bit Sound Blaster
> ISA card. Worked well for windows...  
> 
> 1. Suggestions on how to install this soundcard? (Yes, I am recent to
> linux. I need to ramp up, so I just went cold turkey to Mandrake.)
> 

Have you tried running draksound?  It should be in the drakxtools-newt
rpm.

Cheers,
Tanner
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