KDE 3.1 Alsa Problem

[John Keniry <john@ice-nine.co.uk>]

Installed the 3.1 debs linked off http://kde.org on Woody then compiled
and installed Alsa.

The problem is when I type, say,

play test.wav

in a konsole session it simply hangs without making any sound. Similarly
when I run prboom there's no sound, but the KDE system sounds all work
fine.

On the other hand if I try

play test.wav

from a tty before running kde it plays fine.

The kernel is a custom 2.4.18 however the .config is tried and tested
with kde 3.0.3 on the same machine. The /etc/modules and
/etc/modules.conf are also the same as had previously worked with 3.0.3
and alsa.

Anyone have any ideas?

-- 
John Keniry