mdv on phenom quad core

Greetings;

I was just booted to 2010x64, and updated about 300 megs of stuff, then 
thought maybe I'd see if I could get any sound out of it with the hardware 
configurator.  First, I tried to switch it to using the emu10k1 since the 
card I desire to work is an Audigy2 Value, SB400.

That called for downloading and installing an as10 package, which it did.

And at some point, it also called for and installed the kde-pulse-alsa 
pluggin too.

Then at the more or less main screen for this I selected the emu10k1 again, 
which brought up a list of channels apparently obtained from the card.

So I selected one, then ran kmix and enabled everything, which of course make 
it wider than my 1680 screen, and then setected each of the channels in turn, 
but the only channel that made any noise was the spdif output!  And that had 
no volume control via any kmix slider, and somewhat overloaded my decent 
sounding but puny powered speaker system.  So I moved that one to the top of 
the list and hit apply.

That was the last sound I heard.  I sent FF to cnn to see about listening to 
some news videos, but it never even made a motion to go get the video file 
itself although it would go get and redraw the player screen each time I 
selected a different story video.

I went back to the hardware thingy, and tried to test the sound again, and it 
was gone, no channel worked, not even the spdif output.  And kmix still had 
no control, even over the muting/un-muting.  Not even a thump when clicking 
any of the mute boxes, which I left all unchecked.

Trying to get aplay to play one of the numerous .ogg's sound effects 
installed, that was 100% no permissions, for either me or a sudo -i.

Ditto for trying to run pavolume-control from the menu's, no permissions 
boxes pop up.

Restarting, as root, /etc/init.d/sound reports nothing.

Clues, rtfm's etc investigated, please advise on these two probably unrelated 
problems.

Thanks.

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