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I just installed it about a week ago, I haven't had any major problems with it ,other than my dam cs46xx-based soundcard (GTXP) working, but not quite (sound works fine in quake3, then not at al). It is very easy to use and set up, for linux, and mandrake has been a pretty solid distro--if a little on the newbie side. >>
hey, i have a santa cruz which uses the cs46xx driver too. it sounds great, except for every once in a while, it will just get all fuzzy all of a sudden. its not very often, so its not that terrible, but it is annoying when it does happen, so i wrote a script to remove the kernel modules and then re insert them, it's basically just this:
#!/bin/sh
sudo modprobe -r cs46xx
sudo modprobe -r ac97_codec
sudo modprobe -r soundcore
sudo modprobe soundcore
sudo modprobe ac97_codec
sudo modprobe cs46xx
sudo aumix -v 87
sudo aumix -w 78
echo "sound fixed sucka!"
exit 0
anyways, you need to have sudo set up for that to work right, but if you do, you can just assign the script to a key combo, and then fixing your sound is only a key combo away. you could always just remove the sudo's from there, and run it as root whenever you need to.