From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:39:25 -0700, stan wrote:

> I'm probably not the person to be defending pulse, because I leave it
> installed but disabled.

Is there a bullet-proof way to do that? Disabling PulseAudio is a FAQ for
Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, too. The suggested "setting autospawn = no
in /etc/pulse/client.conf" plus running "pulseaudio -k" plus "configuring
audio players to use alsa drivers" doesn't work for all users. Last time I
tried it myself, I got socket errors and no audio. I had to run "yum -y
remove pulseaudio" as a work-around to actually remove several deps, too.