kde app sounds

[matttah]

I have kde, and for kmail and a few other apps i ahve to use sound. I use the arts server and what not, and xmms and all my other (non-k ) apps work fine....I just got around to working on this problem, since it seems about a week ago my sound turned off for all kde related apps. The server works fine, artsplay works fine...so I do not know what I ahve done..i have tried to just hit play(to sample what it owuld play if say, i got mail) and now it does nothing. So what am I missing that i've done wrong?
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