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I just upgraded to KDE 3.2.2
Now am having sound issues. When I try to start kmix I get:
$ kmix
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:


When I log in to KDE I get the message:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

This wasn't happening in my old RedHat 9 system (I'm now running slackware 9.1), and I haven't changed my hardware. How can I fix this?

i juist logged into my root account, and sound works fine. so it's not a system wide problem, just something messed up in my regular user's account. any ideas what it could be?

problem solved long ago on linuxquestions.org:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/…131#post1048131