Comment 12 for bug 153241

I have now repeated the test using the ALSA "pcm" test program
in 8.04 and 8.10 beta. The pops and clicks are still there in 8.04,
but they are gone in 8.10 beta.

For the 8.10 beta test, I booted the 8.10 beta i386 desktop live
CD (in safe graphics mode, because the machine locks up during
boot otherwise), and ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
apt-get source alsa-lib
cd alsa-lib-1.0.17a/test
cc pcm.c -lasound -o pcm
./pcm