1. Disabled the VIA sound chip from the bios and booted up the machine.
2. Kudzu notified me of the missing sound card and I told it to remove its configuration and the boot up continued normally.
3. Attempted to login using the default Gnome desktop. All that appeared was the Fedora Splash screen but none of the launch icons appeared on that screen. The login process appeared to hang at this point.
4. Restarted X and logged in using the XFCE desktop and used the system-config-soundcard program to confirm that only one sound card was present and that the test sound was working (it was).
5. Attempted play a song from rhythmbox but was given a dialog message stating that 'Alsa device "default" does not exist'. No music files work.
6. Tuxracer does find the sound card, however.
I'd also add that re-enabling the soundcard just confused the system-config-soundcard program by displaying both soundcards but mixing up the two (e.g., playing the test sound for the built in soundcard actually delivered the sample to the SB Live card).
My question at this point is: what the best way to clean out the apparently messed up alsa configuration files and/or trick FC3 into treating the system as if the built in sound card was never there?
Thanks for the help, Jonathan
PS Should I file this issue as a bug report?
