Quote Originally Posted by kirol
Hi Hal, i think I am using alsa already. I've got both alsa and alsa-utils under /etc/init.d, both of which seem to run alright at boot time. Alsamixer works from the command line. Everything was working under KDE up until a few weeks ago (I am not booting that particular install that often but would really like to keep it working). It still does, but for root only, which is really annoying.

Hi Kirol,
Sounds like your regular user is no longer a member of the group "audio"

As a normal user, type groups, at a terminal.
In the results do you see audio?
If not add user to group audio with

gpasswd - a user audio

Replace "user" with your normal knoppix user name