State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

[john wendel]

On 07/01/2009 12:30 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, john wendel<jwendel10 at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> 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
>
> Do you have a modprobe.conf?  What do you use in place of the
> pulseaudio volume applet? I have not found an equivalent one for Gnome
> panel.
>

No modprobe.conf. I set the default sound levels with alsamixer, and I 
use the volume controls in the app I'm using. I don't use any desktop 
sounds, if that matters to you.

Regards,

John