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Thanks .I will try it.

Where you get installation form?CD's or ISO images or you installing from HD? If ISO have you checked MD5 sums on this images?If from CD or HD can you check whether ldconfig-2-3-3-10mdk.i586 is somewhere in /mandrake/Rpms/ ? I downloaded ISO images, unpacked it into HD. "ldconfig-2-3-3-10mdk.i586.rpm" package is in my /Mandareke/Rpms directory.

Hello Just checked with more attention /root/drakx/ddebug.log and found following * selecting new medium '4' * read header file /mnt/tmp/headers/aspell-ru-0.50.2-4mdk.i586 * read header file /mnt/tmp/headers/man-pages-ru-0.7-2mdk.noarch * opened rpmdb for writing in /mnt * opened rpm database for transaction of 2 new packages, still 0 after that to do * rpm transactions start * getFile man-pages-ru-0.7-2mdk.noarch.rpm:Installation CD 4 (x86) * refusing medium 4 * bad package aspell-ru-0.50.2-4mdk.i586 * bad package man-pages-ru-0.7-2mdk.noarch * opened rpmdb for writing in /mnt * opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1 package only * rpm transactions start * getFile aspell-ru-0.50.2-4mdk.i586.rpm:Installation CD 4 (x86) * refusing medium 4 * retrying installing package aspell-ru-0.50.2-4mdk.i586 alone in a transaction * opened rpmdb for writing in /mnt * opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1 package only * rpm transactions start * getFile aspell-ru-0.50.2-4mdk.i586.rpm:Installation CD 4 (x86) * refusing medium 4 So my missed packages are supposed to be on CD4! That's interesting! I only know about 3 official MDK CD's. Where I can get this CD? Or how to get missed rpms ? PS:Anyway, I do not care about this packages - I use MDK completely in English Just for the future.

Got the same .... only with other packages. aspell-ru and manpages-ru Check /Mandrake/Rpms where they are supposed to be - did not find them there... What's wrong?

Here is a short list of what I've done. 1.As you told me I ran DrakSound. It told me - "no sound device, pls run alsaconf or sndconfig" 2.As I once used "sndconfig" I decided to run "alsaconf". "su" - "alsaconf" - not found!!! 3.Checked installed packages - "alsa-utils" are not installed. :o 4.Run urpmi alsa-utils..... It said "You need pciutils" Run urpmi pciutils.... 5.Finally run alsaconf It did not detect ESS1869 it detects ESS1688.Well, let it be. 6.Run Audacity.Load WAV file with voice message - and hear complete bullshit! Instead of voice PC plays strange frequencies which AM and FM modulated! 7.Press stop button in Audacity - it stops responding!!!! After that any attempt to play any sound results in error message - device is busy or no sound device or wrong device.!!! Still I have no similar behaviour of system whatever I tried.Everytime to the same action it reacts with differen reaction - I am talking only about sound problem on my PC! Other stuff (video, network, drives) works fine. Thanks a lot again for you help. Anyway, I give up.I it takes too much time - I can not afford to devote 24h per day for reading HOWTOs, manuals, forums.

Thanks a lot!That's exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks a lot for info on HardDrake.Now it is clear. Concerning sound card - it is not working at all. As I mentioned "sndconfig" sets default parameters for my card. These parameters are OK (I checked in Windows) I can hear a test sound in "sndconfig" - but only first part "Hello" - and that's all. In KDE/Look'n'feel/Sound when I press Test sound button I hear nothing. Some people advise to install alsa-mixer did not work. This command wrote something like " no such device"

Well... I fully installed MDK 10.0 again. Checked all files and directories /var/log - some files are empty, one contains last boot log . Did not find ANY trace of installation logs! I assume that under standart installation there is no log kept.

Well Just want to split my problem in two parts. Here is first part Hi there! Just installed MDK 10.0 on old Compaq DeskPro EN (PII/333) with ESS1868 on-board audio card. During installation I was prompted to run "sndconfig" for sound card. Installation was fine. Run "sndconfig" as root,audio card was not detected, select ESS1868 from list. All default values (IRQ=5,DMA=0,I/O=220) were OK for my card. I checked HardDrake - no sound card is detected! Somehow some strange noise is coming from PC speakers. So question #1 is - is it OK for Linux that ISA PnP card is not on a list in HardDrake? Then I checked "dmesg" "...... Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found ........ sb: Init: Starting Probe... sb: Probing legacy card with io=220, irq=7, dma=1, dma16=5 SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS chip ES1869 detected sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - Probable IRQ conflict sb: Turning on MPU sb: Init: Done " Question #2 - Why it tries to check with "io=220, irq=7, dma=1, dma16=5" when in sndconfig I put other parameters? Pls answer only my questions - I already read Sound HOWTO. :unsure:

No. "There is no mixer device found" or something like that.

Well....... No one can answer? I am also interested in this info. During installation I got two error messages that some packages are not found.I did not put it on paper(we are in XXI century, aren't we?) Also I got problems with my ISA sound card, so it would be interesting to see what was detected/ Is all stuff during installation logged somehow?If yes , where?

Hi there! Just installed MDK 10.0 on old Compaq DeskPro EN (PII/333) with ESS1868 on-board audio card. During installation I was prompted to run "sndconfig" for sound card. Installation was fine. Run "sndconfig" as root,audio card was not detected, select ESS1868 from list. All default values (IRQ,DMA,I/O) were OK for my card. But...when playng sample file ("I am Linus..." etc) it was a lot aster - like old vinil disks for 33 rpm played on 78 rpm! When enabling system sound - system beeps sound like , well, I do not know how to tell - just like two frequencies. Looks like something wrong with sampling rate. But how to configure it? I use /Multimedia/Soubd/Audacity. Tried to play MP3 and WAV files.Get some strange noise instead of music. For me it sounded like samples of frequencies. More of it.I checked HardDrake - no sound card is detected! I checked "module.conf". Here it is: "alias autofs autofs4 probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 eepro100 alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330" For me parameters of ESS1868 looks OK. But still - sound is there, but it is messed somehow. Is there are some ways to get sound works normal way?