Re: soundcard

On 11/20/2010 03:10 PM, john wrote:
> Anyone know of a currently available inexpensive soundcard (say 20-30 Gbp)
> which works out of the box with 2010.1.
> (no hair left after trying the onboard MCP61 or a Soundblaster 5.1vx )

I am not familiar with those specific cards, nor do I know what 
you did while not tearing hair out, but I find it difficult to 
believe that 2010.1 would not work with most any ordinary card. 
What is your hardware other than the card?

Have you tried running pavucontrol and tinkering with settings 
there?  If something is set to 0 for output, that can complicate 
things.

Have you gone through the trouble-shooting routines found in MCC 
when setting up the sound system?

Have you tried disabling pulse audio?

Do you have the gstreamer stuff installed?  (draksound should 
download and install stuff needed, but it might have hit a glitch 
on something.)

Have you gone to Google Groups and used advanced search to search 
alt.os.linux.mandriva for error messages encountered or sound 
problems in general?

Cheers!

jim b.

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