Sound on Fedora-8: what a mess!

[Rex Dieter]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> 
> I was listening to a CD (Yehudi Menuhin) on one F-8 laptop,
> where it worked fine (using amarok),
> and moved to another, apparently identical, F-8 laptop,
> and got no sound at all.
> I tried "killall -9 pulseaudio" and it worked perfectly.

If you don't want pulseaudio support (in kde anyway), simply
rpm -e kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

logout/login

-- Rex