[LAU] Installed Fedora17, now trying to play sound

[Ivan K]

Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On 16 July 2012 15:44, Ivan K <ivan_521521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Also, in the "Applications Menu" there are the following:
> >    "ALSA Mixer"
> >    "Envy 24 Control"
> >    "Pulse Audio Volume Control"
> 
> personally, if you're going to use this for recording/making music,
> i'd recommend ripping out pulseaudio entirely and installing jack
> instead.
> 
> those applications will become redundant then.
> 
> there are many jack-specific mixer/playback/control applications to
> manipulate the sound, and it is far superior to pulseaudio, although
> the latter is fine for general use: voip, listening to music, etc.

 From what I  understand from later replys, I do not
have to uninstall all pulse-audio packages to use
alsa/jack.