Sound problems with latest kernel -- formerly a pulseaudio thread but not any more

[Susan Cragin]

>I filed ubuntu bug 369762. 

Ubuntu didn't think much of my bug. They sent me the following recipe to cure it, and marked the bug invalid. 

1) Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf, and change "autospawn = yes" to "autospawn = no"
2) `touch $HOME/.pulse_a11y_nostart'
3) `asoundconf list'
4) choose the desired card from the previous command's output, and use `asoundconf set-default-card CARD', replacing CARD as appropriate
5) `killall pulseaudio'

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/348353
mentions a recent kernel patch that routes all audio through pulse. I wonder if this patch is the culprit?