Comment 2 for bug 356206

None of the options I have tried works (on karmic alpha):

drivers=pulse: application hangs when opening device:

#0 0x00007ffff5a275a9 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007ffff12e4fbd in pa_threaded_mainloop_signal (m=0x2425dd0, wait_for_accept=1) at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:197
#2 0x00007ffff12c9607 in pa_context_set_state (c=0x245c320, st=PA_CONTEXT_CONNECTING) at pulse/context.c:313
#3 0x00007ffff12caef6 in pa_context_connect (c=0x245c320, server=0x255e320 "{5ec9cd22341a1ed533c4aaef48b755a6}unix:/home/tronic/.pulse/5ec9cd22341a1ed533c4aaef48b755a6-runtime/native tcp:Kaidenn:4713 tcp6:Kaidenn:4713", flags=PA_CONTEXT_NOAUTOSPAWN, api=0x0)
    at pulse/context.c:1020
#4 0x00007ffff7ae89e1 in pulse_open (device=0x235f670, device_name=<value optimized out>, format=<value optimized out>, samples=0, frequency=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/pulseaudio.c:295
#5 0x00007ffff7ad1bd3 in alcOpenDevice (deviceName=0x0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/ALc.c:1292

drivers=alsa, [alsa]device=pulse: sound works for a while (around 10 minutes), then there is corrupted noise for less than a second and after that only silence but the application stays displayed on pavucontrol. The application hangs on exit at:

#0 0x00007ffff5a23cfd in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007ffff7ae023c in StopThread (thread=0x255dcf0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/alcThread.c:120
#2 0x00007ffff7ae1a25 in alsa_close_playback (device=0x25469c0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/alsa.c:529
#3 0x00007ffff7ad1ff6 in alcCloseDevice (pDevice=0x25469c0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/ALc.c:1349

drivers=oss: no sound, application does not appear on pavucontrol.