CD player: Gnome=sound, KDE=silence?!?

[Douglas Frank]

Hmm, I know the CD plays because I can hear it in a gnome session-- but 
if I choose KDE, I get silence.

Under gnome, in addition to the player program's volume control, there's 
a separate volume control that I have to turn up full every time I 
reboot- its settings aren't persistent.  That's problem one.

Problem two is, I can't find that other volume control under KDE.  Where 
is it, and how do I make its settings persistent?

thxs

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Douglas Frank
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