Comment 29 for bug 282316

Balaji, I share your frustration over the sound system in Ubuntu. There are so many components; we have OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio, Gstreamer, Jack etc, and it is difficult to know where to start looking when things go wrong. Personally I share your view about PulseAudio - that it does not seem stable enough and that Ubuntu probably would be better off without it at the moment. Hopefully that will change in the near future.

But also know that almost all of us are volonteers and luckily one of them (Daniel) has time to work with this issue. The best you can do at the moment is to have patience and continue to help the Ubuntu project in the ways that fit both you and the project (see http://www.ubuntu.com/community).