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I probably started in the wrong end, by installing a few GStreamer packages:

1. gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
2. gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
3. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

It was first after that that I actually configured sound

As always the Arch Wiki contains all the information needed, and more. There’s a page for configuring Alsa. All I did was install alsa-utils, make sure my user was a member of audio and then configure using alsamixer until aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav played properly. Then I put alsa in the DEAMON list in /etc/rc.conf.

Next I installed and configured PulseAudio. Again there’s an excellent page with instructions for configuring PulseAudio on the wiki. For me that meant first installing pulseaudio and alsa-plugins. Then I used vigr to add my user to pulse-access and pulse-rt. I also created /etc/asound.conf, following the instruction on the wiki it contains the following:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

I then double checked that PulseAudio uses HAL to detect the needed modules. Lastly I made it possible for gstreamer to use PulseAudio by installing gstreamer0.10-pulse.

[edited 22/5/2009] Added info on group membership.