Comment 16 for bug 442748

Daniel,

I've added " position_fix=1" and rebooted as you suggested and although it seems to help with how quickly the sound recovers itself from going "crunchy", it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem entirely.

Here's how I can reproduce the problem:
At the password entry field for login, I hit the backspace key repeatedly and the I hear an action sound(from the sound theme) on every other key entry. Then on about the fourth or fifth iteration of the sound, as I keep hitting backspace, it turns to the "crunchy static" sound that I mentioned previously. Then if I wait for about 30 seconds and hit the backspace again, the regular sound is back and working until I hit it repeatedly to duplicate the problem.

So then I logged in, the Ubuntu startup sound works, then I went to youtube and the sound works, then with youtube open, I launch C&C Red Alert II in wine, the sound went all crunchy again. I then exited youtube and the wine game, turned off sound via Sound Preferences>Hardware and back on again and sound is working once again.

So now I have turned of the alert sounds from the Sound Preferences all together (as opposed to having the Ubuntu theme sounds running) and I'm able to play my wine game with full sound.

Please let me know if there's anything else I should add to this report to help define the issue.

Thanks very much for your assistance!

Shannon VanWagner
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