[ltp] Sound on Thinkpad 600

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On Friday 04 March 2005 21:20, JP Shipherd wrote:
> FYI...I did install Mandrake and sound is working!

It just means that Mandrake's setup did a better job with your computer 
than RH. Newer releases tend to do things like this better than older 
ones, in general, regardless of distro.

> The sound wouldn't configure during the install, but after my first
> boot I was able to run alsaconf out of the box which scanned the
> system for the ISA sound hardware, found it and set it up pretty
> painlessly.

Haha, okay, Mandrake's setup deserves no credit at all then. :) It's 
alsaconf, which is distributed by the ALSA project.

> Just out of curiosity, how different is Mandrake from RedHat?  Will

It was originally based on RH but since maybe 7.0 or so has been 
completely separate in development.

> certain packages only be available on one distribution or the other?

In the very rare case that this is so, it can be compiled (with the 
proper development tools, which you're almost certain not to have 
gotten in your default Mandrake install. If not those would have to be 
installed later. But again, very rare. Anything you're likely to hear 
about is probably already available as a Mandrake RPM.)
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