Champagnemojo,

I tried Stephen's idea of alsa-autoconfig, instead of your link to kano - not sure if ALSA is running, or working, or anything...

Upon assuming, ALSA is, I figured since I am "going" to be pointing KDE to "aplayer", that aplayer must exists on my system already. So I tried "aplayer test.wav", from a console - it errored out with the following:

$ aplayer test.wav
bash: aplayer: command not found

Then - getting the brain-dead idea of "looking" for it, with a apt-cache search alsa, came up with way too much ...alsa.... stuff - shesh, this is worse than typing "kids" in an internet search engine - you get BILLIONS of "porn" sites, but in this case, thousands of packages that have alsa in the "somewhere", and which the descriptions don't give me a clue what I want, need, or have, to have...

Consider that frustrations are at an "all time" high right now - can someone just "tell me" what I need, exactly, specifically, and to ensure that alsa is working, what do I need to find that out. Second, what mixer, appears alsamixer is NOT a package that can be gotten, but I did see in the thousand package search from above, a "xalsamixer" and a "xaplayer" - I think.

This is getting way too complex for me here, when I am running without my business doing its work, and my money-maker, "tid-bit" information, in which I need to run everywhere, and waste more time looking, for, what appears, nothing I can find, is more time away from getting my business back into running again. Can I get "exactly" what I need to do here?

After I get my business up and running again, then, I can play "find out where the "X" is? You can search for it, or do a search on the internet for anything having to do with "alsa" :. Then tangle with the fact that this OS is so new to me, that I haven't a clue what I am doing, or what I need, or how to do it, or anything, and I can't get my work done in the meantime...

Sorry, I haven't been myself lately, since finding out I can't do my business work now...
Cuddles