Comment 4 for bug 574137

Daniel: I tried your suggestion (add position_fix=1 to the options snd-hda-intel line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf). If anything, it makes it worse.

I posted this problem to Ubuntu forums earlier today and one other user reported the same problem. I can make do with the applications that I need by just removing pulseaudio but would sure like to solve the problem.

Am willing to do some testing if you can think of anything else.