State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

[john wendel]

On 06/30/2009 09:23 AM, Kam Leo wrote:

[snip]

>
> I do not mind the "experimental" nature of Fedora. In fact, it is one
> of the features that draws me to the distribution. Unfortunately, in
> the F11 release the Fedora project team screwed up royally by not
> providing or leaving available fallback option(s) for Pulse Audio.  If
> Pulse Audio does not work with your hardware there aren't any packaged
> tools for you to use to troubleshoot the problem. If you uninstall or
> do not install Pulse Audio what packaged alternatives are available?
>

Alsa works fine here without PulseAudio. You just need to configure your 
apps to use the direct Alsa interface instead of the Pulse interface.

Regards,

John