Looks weird; picking up this discussion I verified on my laptop - the snd_hda_intel driver is loaded - task-pulseaudio is not installed - but a lot of "...pulse..." packages are installed (see list at the end of this message (all installed without asking for it) - sound "works" - I remember (about 2 weeks ago) to have seen warning popups at desktop startup that sound was reverting for some reason to alse (I did not pursue this at the time) - recently no more messages.
I agree: waiting for alpha-2 before spending time on this issue is a good idea, but: regularly installing updates from core/release, does this not practically automatically promote our installation to alpha-2?
------------- <harms@ltjuergen ~> rpm -qa | grep pulse libpulseglib20-0.9.22-4.mga1 pulseaudio-client-config-0.9.22-4.mga1 libpulsezeroconf0-0.9.22-4.mga1 libpulseaudio0-0.9.22-4.mga1 alsa-plugins-pulse-config-1.0.23-3.mga1 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.22-4.mga1 libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.23-3.mga1 pulseaudio-0.9.22-4.mga1 libpulseaudio-devel-0.9.22-4.mga1
