[ubuntu-nz] The updates in the last month made my system much less stable.

[Tim Uckun]

>> Yes I have a similar problem playing embeded flash (youtube) videos in
>> firefox, listening to music rhythmbox and watching videos in Totem. I
>> have to restart firefox with Totem / rhythmbox closed, in order to hear
>> sound. Rhythmbox will crash if firefox plays first. All sorts of weird
>> soundcard issues. I didn't get these problems a few months ago.
>>
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> Rhythmbox routinely freezes with CPU running at 99% when playing music
> CDs.  I have to kill the process each time.  I don't think this happened
> before a few weeks ago.  I have not noticed any issues with Firefox.

Has anybody tried ripping out alsa and installing OSS4?