It turned out the problem I was having was that pulseaudio 0.9.11
(even with the three patches posted recently to alsa-devel) still has
issues under Fedora 9. When I regressed back to pulseaudio 0.9.10 and
used the latest 2.6.26-git6 kernel which has the alsa 1.0.17 drivers,
audio works fine now.
Jack
ps What I get under pulseaudio 0.9.11 is distortion and static in
the audio playback.
