I have a 6-Channel version of the infamous sound card and I want to get six channels instead of the four i get now can i have some instructions on how to do so please I have mandrake 9.1 and i have had linux running for 3 days so i am a complete newbie(I understand the command prompt and how to open it but not using it)

Thanks in advance
Boffy

Unfortunately the speaker support is compiled into the module, and in the case of Mandrake that means it was compiled into the alsa sound module. If you want to recompile ALSA from the ground up, you can take a look over here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=cmipci

Now, the normal kernel oss module has a parameter in normal kernel compilation to build a version of cmpci.o with 6 speaker support, the default is 2. You can run this instead of alsa, just remove (or better just to comment out with #) all of the mention of alsa modules in /etc/modules.conf and then:

modprobe cmpci

That'll at least show you how many speakers its precompiled for on Mandrake.

Cheers,

Finegan