recently I have purchased a Compaq presario v6000 laptop with vista os. But I have deleted vista and installed mandriva linux only. Now the problem I am facing is that there is no sound. As per instruction in internet, I have downloaded and installed alsa-1.0.14rc4. But it also doesn't work.

When I use the command: sudo alsaconf, after few steps I get the following message:

Loading driver...
Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ]
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.9b): no. (sound is [FAILED]ed by pid 6724))
ALSA driver (version 1.0.9b) is already running.
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Invalid command!
amixer: Invalid command!


Plz suggest what I should do now (I am not expert in linux installation).

Thanx - Dilip

You probably have a program running in the background that has the sound device open. Either shut down all sound programs, or simply reboot.

Also, to better maintain your Mandriva installation, I have a build environment that will build and install the rpms for the driver, libs and utils. You can get it here. Just untar it, then (as root), run "make && audio_install".

Let me know if you have problems after this. Also, if you do run into issues, could you post the link from running this script.