Comment 45 for bug 577727

Thank you Chrisn for post #7
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9202903&postcount=134
I had the same problem using Mint 10.10 (based on Maverick)
with the game Quake 4 for Linux : Lag sound issue

sudo apt-get purge libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-udev pulseaudio-module-x11 gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol

Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio* indicator-sound*
  libcanberra-pulse* mint-meta-gnome* mint-meta-main*
  padevchooser* paprefs* pavucontrol* pulseaudio*
  pulseaudio-esound-compat* pulseaudio-module-bluetooth*
  pulseaudio-module-gconf* pulseaudio-module-x11*
  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf* pulseaudio-utils*

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer alsa-oss python-alsaaudio