kde2 sound problem

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE.

I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well 
kde started again.
But it threw an interesting error:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied).

but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx

bleah!