No sound with Fedora 8

[Rohan Kulkarni]

Hello,
         I installed Fedora 8 on my Acer laptop recently.It installed
properly but I am not getting any sound.
         The system specs are:
                    Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 1.5Ghz
                    2GB DDR2 RAM
                    Intel 965 Chipset
                    mobile Intel Graphics media Accelerator X3100
                    160GB SATA Hitachi Hard Disk.
I used system-config-soundcard.It detected the sound card properly as 82801H
HD audio controller and module as snd-hda-intel.The sound test here fails
and then audio configuration hangs.
Also PulseAudio does not start.It gives an error "Connection Refused".
alsamixer gives an error as :
 *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

Though the sound card has been detected there is no sound.What can be the
problem?How can I solve it?
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