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>alsa instead of pulseaudio
I don't even have pulseaudio installed. Only hassle is to find out the correct configuration to get sound at all, by finding the right pcm device number, but once setup it just works.
I know your common linux distro with desktop environment comes with pulseaudio setup out of the box. Looks like you have to do some configuration first. I was wondering though, if you could just use alsa and ignore pulseaudio instead of configure it to use pulseaudio.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Back-end_configuration