Now back to Mandrake --- yes 10.0 Community is Great

Have installed this several places, though not on the main box....

Discovered this one little tick that was quickly resolved after a little Googling.
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With a few hints from Linuxforums.org... and the MandrakeUsers Forum - AUDIGY LIVES!

* If you have upgraded as I did from 9.2, make sure you uninstall XMMS
* Install alsa-utils (easy way is urpmi alsa-utils from a shell)
* Run and check if the mixer levels are set to zero... if so, change.
* Reinstall XMMS (urpmi xmms and then xmms- for extras if needed)
* Open xmms
* Change Preferences to ALSA mixer.

.... at this point I choose a song / CD and get it playing....
if it crashes something is wrong with XMMS setup.

* Open Kmix (Alt+F2 and type kmix)
* Right-click on the speaker icon in the tray
* Choose Configure kmix.
* Check the Advanced tab
* UNCHECK / turn off the Audigy Analog option below the Sound Blaster Audigy slider.

Did it work? Mine is fine now and sounds much better than 9.2 - thanks to the Audigy modules.

nomasteryoda out -- time for some Tunes!
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