I don't know if this would help, but a ways back I was reading about how to speed up 9.04, and someone said to replace Pulse with Esound.. It seems to work, but I don't know what it is actually doing. Here is a tutorial I made on youtube covering it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN70LNMdGo0 There is also a tutorial somewhere about why not to remove pulse, that it removes gnome-desktop.. I also don't know what the problem is with that. ----------- Thanks. Esound is what I was using before. It uses oss (or in my case, I think, alsa-oss). I was using the following set of directions, and they worked until recently. sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-source pulseaudio sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) module-assistant alsa-source esound sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source sudo module-assistant a-i alsa-source reboot Maybe I'll try again, and watch your video.
