Comment 63 for bug 269027

same problem on Compaq CQ61-120EJ on Ubuntu 9.10 (but I can confirm 9.04 has the same issue)
posted logs (sorry for spamming the forum with them - didn't know)

also tried to uninstall pulseaudio (as someone suggested) - didn't work.

I think in the past the only solution that did something (partially worked) was to recompile alsa package.