I recently took out my sound card. I''m choosing to use the onboard audio so I can give the old card to my dad who''s sound card is shot. The thing works fine and all but I been haveing to change the driver to the correct one in Mandrake''s hardware config each time I boot up. I have to turn up my volume levels each time too. I''m looking for the correct way of changing this. Its getting old and I know other distros wont have the hardware config and It would be good to know what I am realy suposed to do about it. Its an Nforce2 sound thing and Nvidia has drivers for it but it think that it my be redundant. They do not provide the RPM drivers for Mandrake 9.1 and I thinking it may be because they ship with the latest. I don''t want to rock that boat because the windows MOBO drivers just F''ed my windows installation up posibly permanatly. Just need to load the driver that is working fine when it boots.

Two options:
A - initscripts
B - login script

Using either of these mechanisms you have have certain scripts/applications run, environment variables set and anything else you could do from the shell when either the machine boots up (A) or you login (B). Look into them.

Hmm,

I''m not familiar with Mandrake''s hardware configuration stuff, but if you''re using ALSA at least.. you can do an ''alsactl store'' to save the configuration of your mixer settings so they persist across reboots.


HTH,

.zfod

I fixed it. For whatever reason the config tool refused to save the changes. So I went digging for whatever setup file had the diver listed. Found it, changed it, all better.