Try switching from ALSA (it is old and soon-to-be-deprecated, I think) to OSS or Pulseaudio.
sudo lsmod | grep oss
snd_pcm_oss 49152 0
snd_seq_oss 45056 0
snd_mixer_oss 28672 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 90112 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_core
snd_seq_midi_event 16384 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 65536 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 16384 2 snd_seq,snd_seq_oss
snd 81920 23 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss