This has to be the easiest thing I've had to do to configure my linux box. Using Slackware 10.1, I logged in as root and ran the alsaconf utility. This auto-detected the sound card and even modified the startup files. I ran it from a terminal window under KDE and straight after, it was able to play a couple of .wav files on the desktop. :)
Unfortunately gnome-meeting is still not working properly yet :(
