Ok, it seems Iiriko's workaround worked for my X-Fi. The only thing I had to do before reinstalling pulseaudio and applying the fixes was removing pulse folders:
sudo rm -rf /etc/pulse sudo rm -rf ~/.pulse The only trouble I have after this is sound in Skype... $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installato: 1:0.9.15-1ubuntu2~ppa1 Candidato: 1:0.9.15-1ubuntu2~ppa1 Tabella versione: *** 1:0.9.15-1ubuntu2~ppa1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.1 0 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-proposed/main Packages 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 0 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages -- Crackling noise after update to pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs