Sound disappears after few seconds

[Vitaliy Margolen]

After last number of patches to sound drivers I'm having problems with sound.
Unfortunately I haven't spotted when exactly did that happened.

Here is what the problem is:
- When using AIM, yes, windows AIM - there are nothing else I could find that
  exists on both Windows and Linux and has "Talk" feature.
- After 5 - 10 seconds sound stops working. Recording works fine, but playback
  stops completely.
- Tested with oss, alsa and arts. Problem exists in all of them or in something
  common between them.
- If I don't use record, just play some sound - no problem.
- Needless to say this used to work before.

Any suggestions?