Alternative to pulseaudio

Mandriva 2010, Gnome 2.28.0. I'm getting so sick and tired of the
problems I'm having with pulse audio and Alsa there must be an
alternative out there somewhere. Some of the problems I've experienced:

When PA is running it takes 20 minutes to copy a 1.4gb file to my thumb
drive, without it running it takes less than 3.

I constantly see entries like this in my syslog
pulseaudio[10095]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
pulseaudio[10095]: ratelimit.c: 88 events suppressed

Alsa gives errors like this:
alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally
large: 1789540 bytes (10144 ms).
pulseaudio[10095]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA
driver 'snd_ens1371'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.

pulseaudio[10095]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is
exceptionally large: -1515272 bytes (-8589 ms).

I've set the sound configuration to use the OSS driver:

Your card currently use the OSS "via82cxxx_audio" driver (default driver
for your card is "snd_via82xx")

Of course using the OSS driver I'm without sound again. I've filed bug
reports with Alsa to no avail it seems.

Any advice would be appreciated.

-- 
Chris
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