I have news also. Good news I guess. I've been testing the latest fedora rawhide and as far as I can tell: this bug won't be an issue on Karmic Koala.
Apparently using the latest PulseAudio 0.9.15 + Alsa 1.0.19 PCM won't close if the system crashes or reboot. For the sake of testing I've pressed the reset button many times while using VLC pĺaying sound through SPDIF and PCM playback remained intact I'm already looking forward to the karmic koala's development cycle. -- SPDIF won't play PCM after playing AC3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs