i have two problems one, sound doesn't work on mandriva i have a sb live sound card and i can't get to work with mandriva 2007 free but it did work with fedora 7 and it works with windows xp.
second, i'm trying to install shake 4 onto mandriva 2007 free i have the shake 4 folder under /home/username within the shake folder i have the license. dat file which is all good but i can't execute the shake.exe file everytime i try to execute it with the program wine it comes up with an error saying "bad EXE format for" that's all it says

so if someone can please let me know what to do i appreciate it thanks

My SBLive! card works out of the box here. Do you use the KDE desktop? If you do check that sound is enabled in KCC (Ssytem > Configuration > Control Center in the menu system).

Navigate to Sound & Multimedia > Sound System. Check that Enable the sound system is check marked.

Next check that sound is not muted. Start Kmix (Multimedia > Sound > Kmix sound mixer in the menu system).

You can configure the sound card in MCC (Sytem > Configuration > Configure your computer in the menu system).

Select Hardware in the navigation list (left).

Open the Look at and configure the hardware icon (main pane).

The driver in use and any alternative drivers should be listed under the Drivers section. To configure the sound card, click the Run config tool bar (bottom).

HTH,

ok the sound problem is now solved thanks, i still have the shake problem though and it's pissing me off

I am sorry to be unable to be of help with the Shake problem. I do not use Wine here (Linux based apps meet all my needs), so I know little about its use.

It is my understanding that wine is an imperfect solution for running Windows applications in Linux. Cross Over Office has a better reputation, but is a commercial solution.

I do not know what Shake is (so this suggestion may not work for you), but if you have enough memory (I suggest 1GB RAM or more), you could run Windows XP in a virtual machine and use Shake from there. The vm I use here (I run WinXP in a vm to help in providing user support) is Virtual Box. I have 512 MB RAM here. WinXP runs a bit slow (I give it 256MB RAM, but it would do well with 512MB RAM).

Good luck ...