It is not enough to restart alsa-utils, the whole system has to be restarted. I can confirm this bug on my Dell Dimension 8300, with Dell Soundblaster Live! soundcard.
-- suspend problems: alsa crashes, amarok hangs https://launchpad.net/bugs/48536 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
