Comment 7 for bug 1008177

I just read https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1007783 and tried disabling Pulseaudio with Michael Lazarev's method:

touch ~/.pulse-a11y-nostart
echo autospawn = no|tee -a ~/.pulse/client.conf
killall pulseaudio

That got me no sound at all, in smplayer, banshee, or minecraft.

I will now revert that and try the bit from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/PositionReporting :

>If this affects your HDA Intel sound card, there are two methods the driver can read the position reports. You can test the two >different methods by editing the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file, and add either

>options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1