Re-install or switch distros?

[Farmer Mike]

I finally found the boot parameters that will get my laptop's sound card to play right and quit reverberating - at least with some distros. I've been experimenting with live CDs to start off with an unmodified system, and found that with some distros (ZenLive and Puppy) my sound card does fine, while with others (Mepis and Ubuntu) it still won't work. I'm going to apply the boot parameters to the system on the hard drive, currently Fedora 6. My decision is, should I use it with a fresh install of the distro on there ( the existing one is very altered from troubleshooting) or go to one of the ones that definitely worked?

I'm wondering, do distros differ enough that I can't expect this fix to work on all of them? My tinkering seems to point to that.

[bryansmith]

What works on one distro should work on another - it may take some work but they all use the same software.

Start a new thread with some info such as sound card make and model and what you have tried so far and we would be glad to help