I had this problem and was able to temporarily fix it by following
instructions from here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-926996-start-0.html
Note: I've tested this on Slackware 14 but it should work on any distro
as seems to be caused by the kernel and/or Xorg.
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It's related to USB audio headsets, here's another one having this
issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/993655
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155819
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