the saga continues....
i ended up deciding that upgrade install was probably conflicting, so i
formatted laptop and did a clean install of mandrake 9.0
sound now works first try, without having to compile modules....
but it sounds *really* weird...... all feedback-y noise....
does anyone have any idea what this might be? im using a usb-audio
quattro on a thinkpad 600E
thanx
m~