Earbusting zap noise on sound initialization

Anybody know what in is causing this? I had OSS installed before and tried to switch back to alsa. Sound works at correct volume, but the title says it all. When initialized it tries to make your head explode.

Okay, figured it out. It was when sound initialized with Flash 10. Because of a compatibility package I was using for OSS4 called libflashsupport. Was strange because it didn't always do it, but it's really a nasty issue. I was gonna submit a bug report for the alsa package in hopes to make it a conflicting file or just submit a report on libflashsupport but I'm having password trouble.
edit: cool, got into bugtracker. I think it should be applied to alsa, since installing alsa did not pick up on the package conflict of libflashsupport.
Last edited by Bysshe (2008-12-24 04:38:20)

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