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Merlin Zener wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> just installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop - it has
> a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 soundcard in it.
> 
> Well you guessed it, no sound; the mp3 player starts and the
> display bounces like it's playing, the CD player counts ok,
> VCDs play without sound...
> Please "give me a clue"(tm) as to where to start.
> I'm totally new at this, and kind of overwhelmed by the amount
> of reading to be done [even for the basics! :) ]
> 
> I went straight to the Mandrake site and searched on "sound"
> - it said to do lspcidrake at the command prompt: no listing
> of any sound card. No surprise there, I suppose.
> Reading further, [search for troubleshooting] leads to another
> doc: "Troubleshooting sound of music" which says to do a
> command "sndconfig"
> But that returns a "command not found".
> 
> Digging into the sound-howto doc leads me to look at my
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/ 
> [although of course in my case it's actually
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/ ] to see if my
> soundcard is there; it's not.
> 
> At this stage [do I need to be rebuilding the kernel?] I thought
> I'd appeal to the greater wisdom - hopefully someone else has
> been through this already, any hints or pointers will be very
> very much appreciated.
> 
> 
> TIA :)
> 
> 
Mandrake sets the volume level at zero as default
Open the sound mixer on Multimedia ---> Sound ---> Sound Mixer
A little speaker icon appears on youe taskbar.
right click on it and choose restore.
Set the volumes until you are satisfied and then set these new volumes 
as default
Brian