To answer my own post. Come back 8.1 - all is forgiven. Found service for rawdevices in the init scripts. Ran "/etc/rc.d/init.d/rawdevices start" and voila xine started running d4d no problem. There is also a rawdevices option under DrakConf -> System -> Services.
Now to find out why only root can run xmms.... -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
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