Not in terms of making the problem go away. :-) The problem persists in Feisty, even with esd turned off.
But it is helpful to know what the problem is. In light of Luke's explanation, the best solution seems to be to disable unnecessary sound events and/or use a different software sythesizer. -- Aplay terminates Fonix DECtalk, sometimes Orca https://launchpad.net/bugs/54975 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
