[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Arnold Troeger]

Steven Crane wrote:
> 
[snip]
> Install and run "sndconfig" and it apparently works fine, even played a CD, but let the
> Mandrake Control Centre take a look at it and that's the last you'll hear from it this
> session. Something is obviously still screwy but it seems to work just so long aas you
> don't try to figure out how.

Mandrake Control Center seems to want to install the Alsa sound
drivers.  I could not make those work either.  The OSS driver though
works well.  Once you have the OSS driver loading properly, you can
start the KDE sound server, and kmixer to unmute the sound.
> 
> A lot of software still seems unduly quiet, but without really knowing what it is
> supposed to sound like it is hard to tell. CD works, KDE intro and environment sounds
> seem to be okay, WAV playback from a DOS partition works. Not so much as a peep
> out of any of the tested games yet (which seems strange).
> 
> The only configuration tool that has actually worked is the Monitor one... and that only
> because it allowed me to overide ALL of its defaults to select a workable LCD setting.
> 
> My overriding impression is that Mandrake 8.2 is really not geared to work with a piece
> of kit as old as the 600e. Although, my initial reasoning behind buying a 600e still holds
> good in that all of its components will work under Linux... with sufficient patience.

I agree with you on that.  Patience and persistence pay off in the end
:-)
> 
> ---Steven
> 
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