I'll post this in the hope that it save someone else spending hours trying to figure it out low sound volume on their setup when 64 bit version is installed. My problem was very low and slightly distorted sound. I have an Asus M4A88T-m mobo with integrated card ATI Technologies Inc|RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200] and with which no combination of pulse audio/alsa/ various sound card drivers could I get a decent sound volume. I finally sorted it out with this post:
http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/alsamixer-a ... tings-p29/which gives you terminal access to the alsamixer - for some reason which I dont understand the master volume will set itself to close to zero - my problem - also shared with Mandriva from which I understand this distro was derived.
in case that link disappears it says
put 'alsamixer' into terminal
adjust as you need
then save config (when logged in an admin
'alsactl store'
Incidentally I seem to need to have pulse audio enabled to get amarok to work.
Otherswise I'd just like to comment that this is a great distro - I've been thru most of the main ones and this offers the most stable wine I can find, and it actually processes big image files from raw to tiff faster than under Win XP and Photoshop CS2 is nice and stable. So bit by bit I'm weaning off windows.