missing startup sound when booting into user account!

[KnoppixDawg]

hello everyone,

I have just finished a Debian type install of knoppix 3.4 with the 2.6.6 kernel and here is my problem I am unable to hear the KDE startup sound when logging into my user account although it works fine when booting into my root account I made sure the sound system was enabled in KDE in both accounts, but in my user account when I try to use alsa as my sound system I get this error in the sound system module of the control center.

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

here is the output of lsmod

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 8320 1
ntfs 104852 1
snd_pcm_oss 51716 0
snd_mixer_oss 19072 2 snd_pcm_oss
rfcomm 36760 0
l2cap 25472 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 46436 4 rfcomm,l2cap
lp 13768 0
capability 7428 0
commoncap 9600 1 capability
md5 8064 1
ipv6 248736 12
snd_emu10k1 87300 1
snd_rawmidi 23552 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 86144 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 25344 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 10756 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 13060 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 7680 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 11392 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 49540 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi, snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,sn d_util_mem,snd_hwdep
soundcore 12000 2 snd
pci_hotplug 33724 0
pcspkr 7756 0
8250_pnp 12416 0
evdev 11520 0
tsdev 9984 0
dm_mod 40608 0
via_agp 9856 1
sworks_agp 11424 0
sis_agp 9472 0
nvidia_agp 10012 0
intel_mch_agp 12044 0
intel_agp 18968 0
efficeon_agp 10496 0
eth1394 22788 0
ati_agp 10636 0
amd64_agp 12872 0
amd_k7_agp 10124 0
ali_agp 9600 0
autofs 19456 1
af_packet 21124 0
agpgart 31564 11 via_agp,sworks_agp,sis_agp,nvidia_agp,intel_mch_ag p,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,ati_agp,amd64_agp,amd_k7_ agp,ali_agp
8139too 25728 0
mii 8448 1 8139too
crc32 8448 1 8139too
via_ircc 22400 0
irda 133112 1 via_ircc
emu10k1_gp 7040 0
gameport 8192 1 emu10k1_gp
parport_pc 38176 1
parport 38848 2 lp,parport_pc
8250 34448 1 8250_pnp
serial_core 22912 1 8250
ds 17920 0
yenta_socket 20736 0
pcmcia_core 58240 2 ds,yenta_socket
thermal 14992 0
processor 20672 1 thermal
fan 7564 0
button 9496 0
battery 12428 0
asus_acpi 14104 0
ac 8076 0
rtc 15432 0
ohci1394 33792 0
usblp 14976 0
ieee1394 305296 2 eth1394,ohci1394
usb_storage 66816 0
ohci_hcd 20864 0
uhci_hcd 31112 0
usbcore 94420 6 usblp,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_cd 40576 0
ide_scsi 17540 2
ext3 108648 0
jbd 67488 1 ext3
reiserfs

I have a soundblaster audigy gamer soundcard, and it worked great while booted from the CD here is the output of lspci -v
relating to my soundcard

0000:00:0e.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at ec800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Thanks for any help you can offer, this distro rocks

[shah]

Try append ALSA on your lilo.conf.
It might work: or you can try reinstall using ALSA cheatcode.

[KnoppixDawg]

Try append ALSA on your lilo.conf.
It might work: or you can try reinstall using ALSA cheatcode.

How would I go about reinstalling with the cheatcoade?

Thanks for your help