I had a similar problem.I learned that I have to run system-config-
soundcard card every time I log into the gui or I can't hear the sound.
furthermore changing the volume from the volume control icon on the
panel didn't work. It would just lower itself until I couldn't hear it
again. I reinstalled recently though, and haven't had the problem. I only have
gnome installed though not KDE.
Here is where I found a solution for the "slippery volume control" problem in Gnome with FC2:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121376
In particular, the solution came from:
Additional Comment #6 From Elijah Newren on 2004-05-22 12:05 -------
This is a duplicate of the upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139961. I have updated rpms available at http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/linux/random/download/. (I created the rpms by merely taking the 2.6.1 tarball of gnome-applets from ftp.gnome.org and using it in place of the 2.6.0 tarball in the fedora srpm). The rpms at that site fix the problem for me. :)
Hope this helps, Clint
