Hi Guys, i have the same mobo here and also the problem with choppy sound. i tried various resample rates (as you suggested) but at no success ... however, when the system is under heavy load (e.g. compiling some packages on all 4 cpu cores) using a rate of 96000 khz nearly plays sound (a 44100 .wav-file with aplay converted to 96000kHz via .asoundrc) glitch-free ... nearly ... ;) however, when the compilation is finished, choppy sound starts again ... it gets better if i am moving the mouse in X ... so maybe this are hints ?!?! - anything DMA related ?!?! a while ago i took a look at the alsa sources and found out that there are lots of switches for the different "incarnations" of intel-hda ... which are coded mobo-specific ... well ... how could i help any further ?!?! regards, marcus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user