Hi Alexander,
I've problem with the sound on my KDE desktop which has arised after the installation of the gnome package.
First of all. I am using SuSE Linux 9.0, and KDE and gnome from this distribution. After the installation of the gnome package I've first noticed that the login.wav hasn't been played during login to KDE. Furthermore I have no bell sound in the kvt terminals and other KDE applications. Opening xterm, bell sound appears again, as well as in Xemacs.
As a second step I went to the KDE control center, where I found that everything as it should be. The sound server should be started, when KDE starts. I've achieved to get thesystem bell to be played again, by setting under sound->system bell in the control center "use system bell..." to true. But whenever I want to get a "*.wav" dataset to be played in sound->system notification, I her nothing :-(
Does anyone have an idea?
I've got the same problem yesterday. The KDE Sounds didn't work after some kernel and alsa updates. You can try to create a temporary user und test if the sound works with this user. If yes, than it's only a problem with your normal user. I've deleted the whole .kde directory and the system sounds work again. It's a brute force method but I don't know exactly where to look in the .kde directory. Best regards, Martin Swientek