Hi all,

recently installed Mandrake 10.1 Official on my Gateway laptop (Pentium 4). Everything installed and configured correctly except for the sound card (although it said it was configured correctly).

When I attempt to play an mp3 (or when any other program makes a sound), I get an extremely annoying random-ish pulsating sound.

I used to have Mandrake 9.2 on this machine and the sound never gave me a problem.

Kernel is 2.6.8.1.

Going into Harddrake (Mandrake's hardwire config program), I have the following info:

Identification
Vendor: ‎ESS Technology

Description: ‎ES1988 Allegro-1

Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI

Bus PCI #: ‎2

PCI device #: ‎3

PCI function #: ‎0

Vendor ID: ‎4701

Device ID: ‎6536

Sub vendor ID: ‎4219

Sub device ID: ‎1024

Driver
Module: ‎maestro3

Alternative drivers: ‎snd-maestro3

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I tried using the ALSA drive (snd-maestro3). I had to install the driver from the Mandrake disks. This doesn't seem to work.

So, what to do? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Matt.

$su -
$alsamixer
Configure bars with arrows, enable or disable service with "m" key.
When done ESC
#alsactl store
P.S. If you have 5.1 speaker system, be sure that LFE channels bars are all way down and [off]. LFE channel is to generate 5.1 emulation matrix on 4 speaker systems.

SlackerLX,
thanks for posting so quickly.

After typing alsamixer, I got this message:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

I guess I don't have alsa installed correctly (or at all). Where to go from here?

Thanks,
Matt.

Install alsa packages. I do not have Mandrake but everybody says that it can be done with interactive setup the install disk has. Otherwise, from alsa website.

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