my kde computer -dumb as a stone

[sibu xolo]

greetings,

I've got a computer  that  looks ever so pretty  with  these:-

------cpu amd64 2 cores
-------o/s cblfs linux 64-bit only pulse audio -0.9.21
------gui kde-4.4.5 xorg7.5


It tells me (in sinage )  that it  has  all of these:-

 [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       80 Sep  4 22:27 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 10 Sep  4 22:27 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 Sep  4 22:27 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  9 Sep  4 22:27 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  8 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  7 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  4 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 Sep  4 22:27 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  3 Sep  4 22:27 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  2 Sep  4 22:27 timer
 [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/mixer*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14,  0 Sep  4 22:27 /dev/mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 Sep  4 22:27 /dev/mixer1
linteg [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/dsp*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14,  3 Sep  4 22:27 /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Sep  4 22:27 /dev/dsp1
[ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep  4 22:27 /dev/audio
[ ~ ]# 


but despite  its pretty face  and oodles of stuff for  making sound,  in KDE   
it is as dumb as a stone. 

It seems   KDE   'deemeth' that  my sound card is a 'dummy.';  which is quite 
strange as I disabled   'dummy' for alsa in the kernel compilation.  Stranger 
still in that I can get sound on the command line  prior to startkde with 
aplay  and even in  konsole.

So a little advice would be appreciated
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