I have been using Slackware 9.1 for about a week (LinuxFormat
coverdisc) and am enjoying the experience for the most part. After
having my hand held with Mandrake, and getting fed up with RedHat 9, I
decided to give Slack a go. Aside from not being able to print to a
remote CUPS server (config problems on the server I suspect, since
nothing else can print to it either....) mousewheel, NFS, and video
card problems it's been a lot more fun to use than the aforementioned
distros. Anyhow, to the point.

I mainly use KDE, and currently, it's using aRTs, but for some odd
reason I get a half-second delay in audio. This goes from XMMS
playback using aRTs, to in-game events in kbattleship, Vendetta, and
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It also applies to the error bell,
basically anything that calls on the sound server. I tried reducing
the buffer size, but when the delay is virtually gone, the sould is
horrible. I tried switching to using ALSA, but I get the following

sound server informational message
error while initialising the sound driver
device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device

ok, so what's the default device? I suspect what I need to do is
change it's file attributes, but I haven't a clue where to go from
here, which device it is... guess I'm more of a newb than I thought.