Sound error on login...

[Kimball Larsen]

For some reason, whenever I log in to KDE, I get the following error
msg:

"Sound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device."

Oddly enough, the sound still works just fine... 

I checked to see if /dev/dsp really didn't exist, and this is what I
found:

[quangdog@MainEngineering dev]$ ls -la | grep dsp
crw-------    1 quangdog root      14,   3 Mar 10 01:09 dsp
crw-------    1 quangdog root      14,  19 Mar 10 01:09 dsp1
crw-------    1 quangdog root      55,   0 Mar 10 01:09 dsp56k
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   1 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp1
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  10 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp10
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  11 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp11
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  12 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp12
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  13 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp13
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  14 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp14
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  15 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp15
crw-------    1 root     root     101,  16 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp16
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   2 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp2
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   3 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp3
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   4 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp4
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   5 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp5
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   6 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp6
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   7 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp7
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   8 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp8
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   9 Mar 10 01:09 mdsp9
crw-------    1 root     root     101,   0 Mar 10 01:09 mdspstat
[quangdog@MainEngineering dev]$


So /dev/dsp is there, but it is owned by quangdog (my user) instead of
root...  Is this the problem?

-Kimball Larsen