Ububtu 8.04 Sound Problem

[Jim March]

Regarding Intel sound failing in Hardy:

During the beta-test process for Intrepid, the drivers for Intel sound
on my lappy broke *bigtime*.  Weird errors, like when you plug
headphones in the sound would fade out over a period of about 10
seconds, and then vanish no matter what
speakers/headphone/port/plugged-in-or-not I was doing.

Drove me bonkers.

Everybody was blaming Pulseaudio when in fact it was the core ALSA
setup blown to hell and gone.

I finally ripped out the entire Pulse/ALSA stack and swapped in OSS4.1
and dayum if that didn't work pretty sweet.  Incredibly detailed
mixer, clean sound, full app compatibility.

The links involved:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5909858

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=b3c3276c9433db20e3795a53fba28069&t=780961

http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5 - gives background on the
history of this stuff...