I have run into the same problem (I'm on a ThinkPad T42). An interesting thing I noticed was that sound was only disturbed when sound was being output by ESD (GNOME system events, Gaim events with ESD selected for sound method, Rhythmbox with esdsink for GStreamer sink). When sound was being output straight to ALSA (Gaim events with Automatic selected and ESD put in standby mode, Rhythmbox with alsasink for GStreamer sink), everything played perfectly.
On another note, why did you close this bug report? The bug still exists in the package in the Debian archive. Once a bug is filed upstream, this bug may be marked forwarded to upstream, but it seems incorrect to say this bug has been resolved unless it really has been fixed in Debian. In addition, by leaving the bug open, as it should be, people who have found a similar problem can find more information in the expected place (the list of currently-known bugs). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]