Hi,

I've been having a problem with my sound on hardy and thought maybe someone had already figured it out. I'm not exactly sure what happens, but after a while something gives and no applications can output any audio. Once that happens, the only way I can get anything to output sound is to quit any application that can output sound (that includes firefox if I have and pages with flash videos loaded) and reload alsa from the terminal.

Then, when I restart the apps, audio is usually fine. This happens very often though. I think I've had to restart alsa at least 5 times today, probably more.

Does anyone know what this problem could be and if there is a permanent fix for it?

Thanks