On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:22:01 -0400 Steven W. Orr wrote: > This hass been going on for so damned long and I just want it to stop. Is it > alsa, is it pulsaudio? As I understand it (probably not at all :-) it is sorta both. ALSA is being asked to do things no one ever asked before pulseaudio came along (legal things, but new nevertheless), and it ain't working right.