Pulse Audio Not working with users except root

[max bianco]

2008/6/1 TV Sivaraman <tvsraman at gmail.com>:
> Pulseaudio remains one of the unsatisfactorily resolved issues with both FC8
> and FC9. The server only gets connected as a root user and it refuses
> connection with other users. I tried the procedure given at
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup, but it did not help, no
> progress. The HAL deamon which is suppose to configure pulse server at the
> startup is not doing it properly. It would be really wonderful if someone
> comes up with a working setup, at least for GNOME, KDE audio interface seems
> to be complicated by the Phonon, at least for the present.
> Sivaraman.
>
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Probably a permissions issue if it works for root and no one else. My
sound did not work on an F9 fresh install but all I had to do was go
System-->Preferences-->Hardware-->Sound  switch to ALSA and all was
well.