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> also when KDE first starts up, although my "Starting
> KDE" system event sound is clearly cut short.  Beyond
> that, no sound works either from X or from the
> console.

Just for fun, turn *OFF* the KDE sound effects.

Perhaps, just maybe, whatever sound effect is getting played has some kind
of odd "spike" in the audio that is seg-faulting something somewhere...

It probably won't help, but it might let you get sound to last long enough
to run an application with error messages where you can find them :-)

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