speaker-test fails with the following messages:

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speaker-test 1.0.15

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 1 to 2097152
Period size range from 0 to 206158431
Using max buffer size 2097152
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 0
was set buffer_size = 2097152
speaker-test: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted
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Further information:

[root@ravine pulse]# cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [Audigy         ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090]
                      Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x511102) at 0x9c00, irq 5
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 11
[root@ravine pulse]# cat /proc/asound/version 
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42
2007 UTC).
[root@ravine pulse]# rpm -q alsa-utils
alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
[root@ravine pulse]# rpm -q pulseaudio
pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8

The message 'sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.' also comes when
doom3 is started, which is using SDL sound.