If you're still having problems and you can verify that the problem also persists when you have killed pulse (hence experiencing the problem also with pure alsa), head over and have a look at the bug I created for that case on alsa-driver: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa- driver/+bug/479375
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