sound initialization problem with xmms and icewm question?

Greetings

I have been two weeks runnig knoppix and I am starting to do all I want throught it although it is not as speeder as my other distros like Slackware or Libranet 2.7. I also applied Kano's font fix script but still booting in KDE takes many seconds quite more than 1 minute.

I have tweaked ICEWM menu coping the icewm menu of mandrake 9.1 and added dfm to have icons on my desktop.
But I wonder how to make dfm(or another program) start when i start icewm from KDE login? I have added their path in startup file on .icewm directory
but nothing happens.
Can anybody help me?

Also when I start XMMS , i get no sound from it, if i don't move xmms volume control. i have never had this problem so far with any other distro/

any help would be greatly appreasciated.

best regards