Error using sound with KDE

[David Wassman]

>I am having a problem with my SoundBlaster Audigy sound card with KDE. 
>Before I fired up X, i did this:
>kldload snd_emu10k1
>sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
>sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4
>
>then I did a startx, and KDE loaded, and durring the initial splash screen, 
>I heard sound after it initialized peripherals. But after that, I couldnt 
>get it to work. I tried using XMMS with OSS and eSound, and i tried kaboodle 
>and nautan, all of them had no sound.
>
>So my questions are: Does FreeBSD 5.3 fully support the SB Audigy sound 
>chip? If so, do I need to configure something in KDE to get the sound back?
>
>Thanks
>
>S
>

I had the same problem on a Linux and a FreeBSD machine a while back. 
Try opening the arts controller under multimedia. It will show several 
(20+) volume bars (General, CD, Phone, etc.). How I fixed this is, I 
played a CD in KsCD(?) so I could watch the track count and started to 
move each bar up till I heard sound. On my system it was 
ISO2000something?. Try that and see if it works. If KDE had sound at 
startup but not latter it is most like with the volume selection as 
described.

David