Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 13:02 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-03-13, 15:02 GMT, Dimi Paun wrote:
> > Cause: pulseaudio refuses to make use of the built-in (Intel)
> > sound card. And I can't figure out how to force it! 
> > BTW: I use Gnome, I have ESD checked (that's an obvious label!)
> > so pulseaudio is enabled.
> 
> The one thing which makes me really mad is a bug (which again 
> haven't to find, but it was filed) that ConsoleKit (or 
> PulseAudio, or Hal, or whichever *Kit is responsible for it) 
> messes my ACLs so normal user cannot write to the sound device.  
> Usually Ctrl+Alt+F1,Alt+F7 makes sound working, but this was 
> addmitted as a bug by davidz almost three months ago, and since 
> then NOTHING happened on this front.

Not true. The bug has been analyzed, tracked down and fixed in rawhide,
and I believe F8 updates should be in -testing, at least.