Comment 40 for bug 485488

I'm trying this out in hopes of a fix too. I hope everyone realizes that the many layers of complexity that exist now on linux audio world are evidently making everything increasingly difficult to mantain... since pulseaudio has been made default in ubuntu, i've been having problems with it on every machine i have.. from PA constantly crashing and leaving me with no sound, to crazy 100% CPU usage peaks, and now this. Yes I know those bugs are now fixed, but it can't be denied that they did happen due to having an extra layer! I used to install OSS4 to solve all my issues, but now Gnome in ubuntu 9.10 does not even support that (mixers just stop working).