Comment 67 for bug 66483

We believe (but aren't sure) that there are two issues here, and both are in SDL itself, not the games, SDL_mixer, or ALSA.

Those that are so inclined, it would be useful if you would update to the latest subversion of SDL 1.2 and see if it fixes the issue.

   svn co http://svn.libsdl.org/branches/SDL-1.2
   cd SDL-1.2
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

(you'll need the appropriate -dev packages, but if you don't know what that means, you should probably let someone else test instead.)

Please make sure to test with this new SDL build and not the current system-installed library!

--ryan.