I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well kde started again. But it threw an interesting error: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied).
but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx bleah! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]