In other words, not when using xmms. With him the esd program would trigger the problem. Gregoire Favre also confirmed seeing a similar problem, though only with the output of his DVB-s card, and not with the esd program. Lee Mitchell also confirmed the problem with esd, but didn't give any system details. Steven asked for some people not experiencing the problem to please step forward.
Timidity is fine as well.
Steven noticed that Pierre's version of esd was newer than his, and said he'd upgrade and test again. There was no reply. I don't really have the cycles. However, I might be doing some enhancement work. He asked if any work had been done on such a thing already, and if a driver would be wanted.