.xsession-errors ( kmix / kmixctrl Errors )

Hi,

I'm a newbie to linux. I recently installed a soundblaster audigy card on Mandrake 10. Sound works fine on my cd player, sound works fine when Ksplash starts and sound works fine when events happen: I start or stopp an application. However, I can't get the system bell to work even though I have it enabled in the gui. Also, I keep getting these errors in my .xsession-errors file:

kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.

kmixctrl: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.

Does anyone know if I should be concerned with these errors? Is there a way to get rid of them? Aside from the system bell, everything sound related seems to be working fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

simple answer: ignore the errors or install alsa-utils if they are not installed at the moment and also alsamixer. If sound is working find leave it alone you don't need a system bell. kde and gnome always have sound problems because they are extremely bad with audio call it a fact of life.