kde's sound works, other utilities' doesn't

["sucks the bag" <mitb@totaldeath.com>]

just started running kde (off the testing branch) recently and everything is fantastic EXCEPT for sound-wise.  all of kde's built-in sounds play find and artsplay plays waves as it should, but non-kde applications complain about the device being hijacked.  xmms says "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy", mpg321 says "Error opening libao oss driver. (Is device in use?)", audacity just freezes.  all of these programs work as usual under windowmaker.  i'm a member of audio, my /dev/dsp permissions are right:

crw-rw----    1 root     audio    14,    3 Jul  5  2000 /dev/dsp

this problem happens regardless of whether i start kde through kdm or 'startx'.  any advice?

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macho