At this time I run all of my Fedora systems as VMs in VMware. My host is RHELv4.8. On this system my sound card is a "ancient" Creative Labs SB Audigy. When configuring the VM you can select either "ALSA" or "OSS: /dev/dsp" and directly access the sound hardware. "ALSA" is the preferred connection to avoid conflicts between the host and guest. While I am normally a KDE user my F12 system has both KDE and GNOME installed. I don't normally use sound on this VM...but sometime after the initial install sound has gone silent when the sound card is configured as "ALSA". Wish I had paid more attention to what update caused the change. But to continue.... I also have an openSUSE system with only KDE installed and when I installed it I declined to install pulseaudio (they have a check-box for it). It is fully updated and sound with "ALSA" selected is no problem. So, I just installed F12 from the Live-KDE iso. Immediately after the install I removed all the pulseaudio bits and then fully updated the system. It too has no problem to play sound with "ALSA" configured. I snapshotted the system, did a "yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop", restarted and *poof* sound is no more. pavucontrol did have the Output Devices at 10% and Playback at 0% but putting those at 100% made no difference. kmix had Master and PCM at max. At some point I may do a bit more troubleshooting. But, it is good to experience the frustration other have with sound and apparently "pulseaudio". Chances are I'll be acquiring some new hardware in the coming months. I'm considering to run Fedora on it. If that happens...it will be sans GNOME and sans pulseaudio. At this moment pulseaudio seems more of a PITA than anything and kind of crazy that a desktop environment would tie itself to it.
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