Strange Sound Behavior

:D Good afternoon Knoppix Gurus,
I am having an odd problem with the sound configuration. As root sound works beautifully with mp3's or CD's. As a regular user nothing works.
My hardware is a CS4236B by Crystal Audio. Here is a printout of my hardware:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal d
ecode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 14a0 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1480 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelera
tor] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 8080
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 14
Memory at f6004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at f6100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.: Unknown device 0057
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1400 [size=128]
Memory at f6005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 01) (prog-if 85)
Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra100TX2
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 14
I/O ports at 14d0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 14c4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 14c8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 14c0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 14b0 [size=16]
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Any help that could be provided would be greatly appreciated.

Shawn