Comment 20 for bug 532586

I just did a fresh install of Xubuntu 10.04 and am getting this error as well.

uname -a
Linux julie-toy 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Running pulseaudio in a terminal gives this:

E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4294952016 bytes (24347800 ms).
E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_cmipci'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'C-Media CMI8738' device 0 subdevice 0
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759
E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15503
E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824
E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824
E: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 6000369
E: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 5980165
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 398112 bytes (2256 ms).
E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_cmipci'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'C-Media CMI8738' device 0 subdevice 0
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759
E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15503
E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824
E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824
E: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 6079749
E: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 5980221