Mandrake doesn´t recognize my sound card... Please help!
 

I've recently installed Mandrake 9.2 in my new HP zx5000 laptop, and i can´t get it to recognize my sound card...

Can you help me please...

Thanx!

Whilst it's doubtful that I'd be able to help, is it possible for you to provide a little more detail about your problem for others to see..

What is the make & model of your sound card?

What sympotoms are you getting (beside silence!) i.e. When you start KDE do you see any warning messages? (assuming you're using KDE, of course)

telmo:
go here http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x96.html

look for your card and/or chipset (if known). If it isn't there it may not be officially supported for one reason or another.

For instance, yesterday I was going to buy one of two cards from Creative Labs: the Soundblaster Live! or the Audigy. Using the above site I saw that the more expensive Audigy card was NOT supported. Too bad, 'cause that was the one I wanted more, but I avoided an expensive mistake.

I hope your card is listed. If it is not I hope you are a profficient programmer.

Watch out for the Audigy!!! I payed lots of money for that POS! It clugs the PCI bus so you get strange noises (like crackling) and it's a hardware bug. So much for a driver fix...
For example, I was using Cool edit pro 2.0 to record a file played on cakewalk and I would get this annoying crackles which pretty much killed anything I could record. Better get a terratec or something like that.

Redeye2:
You're not the only one sounding warnings for the Audigy. After I placed my order for the Soundblaster Live! I did a little Googling and discovered that there were a lot of unhappy Audigy owners out there. It doesn't help that Creative Labs has apparently stopped all support for the Audigy card too. Definately a BAD CHOICE!

Thak you all very much... I think i got it... (...at least for now...)
:)