KDE Configuration files

[UNOHU]

MY PROBLEM FOR THE IMPATIENT
I tinkered with the sound server settings and locked up my system. After restarting, the system locks up when trying to play the "KDE Welcome" sound. I fixed it by logging in as "root", deleting my user account and recreating it. I would like to find out where the KDE config files are so I can learn how to edit them as "root" so I don't have to kill all the hard work that I put into configuring my user account.

THE FULL STORY
After recently getting my GeForce 2 card working in RH 7.3 I decided to check out some of the OpenGL games that came with this distro. Tux Racer is fluid but I think I need a better sound card. I've got an old SB 16 PnP and some of the sounds are late. I tried out Chromium and was immediately reminded of the old game "Raptor". Unfortunately, I had no sound. I also had no sound in KAsteroids. I decided to tinker a bit with the sound server and that's when the problem above came to light. Do I just need a better sound card so I don't have to tinker with sound server or is this an issue that someone has came up against before me?

[mdwatts]

Replacing your soundcard would really depend on what type of soundcard you currently have.

Did you try searching the forums for soundcard related issues as there have been quite a few.

It could be a permission problem of which (as root)

chmod 660 /dev/dsp
chmod 660 /dev/audio

may help.

Your KDE config files are in the users home directory. Have a look in

~/.kde
~/.kde2
~/.kde3

The KDE system wide config files will be in the main KDE directory.

Running

env

at the commandline will tell you the correct directory. Look for KDEDIRS.

[UNOHU]

Tried playing Chromium as root and still no sound. I've not tried setting the permissions yet but I assume that "root" should have sufficient access to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio.

Any other ideas in a bag of tricks somewhere?
Thanks for the help mdwatts!