On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote: > 0.9.19. ?On this particular system, PA wants to eat as much CPU as is > available. ?It will use up near 100% on this system when it's otherwise idle. Do you have all packages from karmic-updates applied? Are you using pulseaudio from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev? > 04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High > Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10) > 05:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07) Try linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev.