rc.local not loading and no audio
 

Ok, installed Mandrake 10.1 OE a few weeks back and had no problems.

The other day, I installed Pure-FTPD. I rebooted later that night. On reboot my computer would not come back into KDE. I saw during boot up that pure-ftpd and mailman both failed on start up. The system locked up hard causing a reboot. This occured several times. Sometimes letting me into the GUI but with no control, etc.

So tonight I managed to get back into KDE. I uninstalled pure-ftpd and mailman and rebooted. Now I no longer have any sound, and I found out that my rc.local is not running at start up like it should.

How can I get my sound back? Yes, I do see the alsa drivers loading and they state they're loading OK on startup.
Also, I noticed my rc.local was not running as I do not have my mounts after boot. I am able to manually run it, but its no longer loading it at boot.

Help me get my sound back please. Yes, I've looked at the FAQ, tips, searched, etc. But with the plethora of information on this site, its somewhat daunting to pick out the one fix out of the thousands that are offered. Plus, I'm afraid I'd screw up my system even more.

Thank you for your assistance.

have you run alsamixer and alsaconf to see if it's configured properly? also, are you sure the specific program is pointing at the correct sound device?