Comment 28 for bug 17770

This has *just* started happening for me.

I upgraded last week from Hoary to Breezy, and sound was working fine -- until I
applied the alsa upgrades that showed up today in update-notifier.

I'm using the same kernel as I was using in Hoary, BTW. I'm on a Thinkpad T40.
lspci:

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L
/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

Sadly, the KDE player "Juk" doesn't support the period-size tweaks -- it will
just use "alsasink" with no args.

dpkg -l libasound2 gstreamer0.8-alsa libgstreamer0.8-0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.11-0ubuntu ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii libasound2 1.0.9-2 ALSA library
ii libgstreamer0. 0.8.11-1ubuntu Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, and utili

I've tried with and without ~/.asoundrc; there's no /etc/asound.conf .