setting up a sound card in mandrake 8.1

[TotalFoo]

I'm trying to set up my supported sound card in Drake 8.1 (the comp is a laptop).
if I:
Run /sbin/sndconfig as root
and set to:
Choose the OPL3-SA2/3/x sound chip, I/O Port 0x530, IRQ 5, DMA1 - 1, DMA2 - 0, MPU I/O 0x330.
All the demo files work but this is the only place I get sound. sound works no where else but in the tests in sndconfig. ummm, HELP!

[scanez]

What errors do you get when trying to run sound in other programs? Do you have permissions to use /dev/dsp? Also try using the hardware config tool in DrakConf to set your sound up, but I would check on the first two things first.

SC

[bugfix]

Run 'mpg123 <a file>' and tell us the exact response you get.

[TotalFoo]

well I did some fiddiling around and got it working, but now I've run into another problem. Music CDs have become an un-reconized and un-mountable format to linux. I've tried several CDs, both CDR and real music CDs. data/app/game CDs mount and work just fine. any clue???