Outstanding pre-Fedora9 small issues ??

[William Case]

Hi;

I have a few issues that I have never been able to resolve that I would
like to solve now before I install the upcoming Fedora9.

The first one is with sound.  As is, when testing, all beeps, clinks,
boings and baps of the System Sounds, respond to the Play test.  BUT;
they do not respond when their appropriate desktop event occurs --
silence on log in, log out, error etc.

My soundcard Detection works and confirms that I have a nVida
Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio with a AD198x Analog default PCM
device.  It also says I have an ALSA Driver v. 1.0.15; ALSA Lib
alsa-lib-1.0.15.1.fc8; and ALSA Utils alsa-Utils-1.0.15.1.fc8.

The sound preferences show Sound Events; Music and Movies; Audio
Conferencing (Sound playback) set to Autodetect.  The test buttons
produce a high pitched sound (as they should, I believe).

Default Mixer Tracks: Device shows HDA NVidia (Alsa mixer); PC Speaker
is highlighted as the device selected to track and control with the
keyboard.

~]$ alsamixer ==> shows only the Master control.

I would like to turn these annoying event sounds on; to confirm how they
work; then I will turn them off on purpose.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 8, Gnome 2.20.3, 
Emacs 22.1.1, Evolution 2.12.3