I am using a kernel sound module for my notebook (cs46xx).
I can get the sound to work.
But yesterday while playing around I started up KDE (as root) from the 
command line - I normally use 'kdm'.  I was greeted with all kinds of 
sound effects - startup sounds, clicky sounds, windows open/close 
sounds....  I've never heard them before!
Under KDM, I don't get these - but I can get some sounds... mostly a 
modified beep.

I tried to log in from the command prompt as "joe user" and the sounds 
didn't work then either.  Only root, only from command line.

I have "joe user" added as an audio group member and the rights are set 
to crw-rw---- for the sound device.

When I boot - syslog has entries about unable to find (I forget exactly 
the names) files matching /sound/ that came originally from a failed 
alsa installation that I later purged.
I have removed all the alsa files, re-ran update-modutils and checked to 
  see that modules.conf do not reference these files.  But they are 
still being attempted.

Side note:
Where does kdm get it's PATH from?  I've been trying to fix it for days 
not and all the conventional methods do not work.  I turned up the 
debugging and saw that my PATH does not match /etc/profile or 
~/.profile, ~/.xinitrc, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
How do I fix this so it's using the same path as my /etc/profile?



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