Comment 29 for bug 288093

I have to agree with Casey J Peter. IMHO, there is no question that pulse audio is the problem here. I moved to Ubuntu 8.10 from Debian over the new year. After that, I experienced application freezes every few hours, sound on my system was almost unusable. All the issues and debug I could produce have already been logged into the bug tracking system so I have just added the "affects me too" flag and subscribed. The main way to recover for me was to kill pulse audio whereby most applications carried on working after the freeze. I had particular problems with openal applications. I followed lots of advice to configure and fix things but nothing worked.

A couple of weeks ago I simply removed pulse audio from my system, aptitude removed all trace. I have been working with just Alsa since and have had no problems what so ever. Applications can share the sound system and no applications are freezing. I'm very relieved.

I realise that pulse audio is part of the ubuntu-desktop but it does not work for me. I will carry on watching for news of updates and will test these when they are available. Until then, no pulse audio on my system.

In case it is relevant, lspci shows my sound card as Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI]