Sound on Fedora-8: what a mess!

[Danny Yee]

The simple fact is that sound worked fine in Fedora 7 and is broken in
Fedora 8, at least for me and a good number of others.  Pulseaudio is
clearly not ready for general use and should never have been included.

I just wasted another hour or so trying to get sound to work on my
system -- it worked fine yesterday, but doesn't today, for no obvious
reason -- and now I've tried removing pulseaudio.  vlc and kaffeine
are still looking for pulseaudio, however, and I don't know how to
fix that.  Maybe I have to log out or reboot, sigh.

Danny.