[F8] Can not configure sound AC97

[stan]

stan wrote:
> Vnpenguin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Under root, when I run system-config-sound I can play  the test no
>> problem. I saved and exit. But when I play a mp3 (with plug-in mp3
>> from Livna) with audacious I got always error message:
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> Couldn't open audio
>> Please check that:
>> 1.
>> 2.
>> 3.
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> My card is VIA, model AC97, module snd-via82xx and it works very well 
>> under FC7.
>>
>> Any help please !
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   
> This is probably a pulseaudio issue.  To check, do a
> yum remove pulseaudio-alsa
> If sound works like it did in Fedora 7 after this, then there is a 
> misconfiguration in the pulseaudio - ALSA link.
>
> I don't need any of the functionality that pulseaudio provides so
> I turned it off in the configuration file (go to www.pulseaudio.org 
> for documentation as there doesn't appear to be any packaged with 
> Fedora).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
Forgot to mention that I had issues with esound as well in Fedora 
rawhide.  For that I used command
esdctl off
to turn it off.  Worked as a regular user.