Pardon for my question. Do you really need the advantages of PA for your kind of audio usage? For the way I'm using PA it don't has an advantage, but is a PITA only, ^^ audio hence I never install it.
does every single question about pulseaudio really need to be confronted with a holy war against pulseaudio? sheesh... Please, if you're not going to address the question, let it rest. Apologies for the noise.
I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash completion failure will issue a beep too. However when any program that talks to pulseaudio starts (or try again to talk to it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again.
what does lsof /dev/snd/* say when you resme from pm-suspend? == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.