Hello All, I have an SB Live 5.1 pci card that plays analog out fine and has digital coax out too. I hooked up the digital to my computer speakers which take digital in and it plays normal sound but get random 1 second drop outs of audio pretty frequently. I tried hooking it up to a different digital receiver but got the exact same results. If I replay the same file it does not drop out in the same places either. So then I tried using my on board c-media CMI8738 sound card which has digital out too. Again analog out on it works fine but I get the exact same drop out problem with the digital coax on that card too, with both receivers too. So now I know its not the receiver, and I know it's not specific to the card because both did it. So I'm thinking it must be a problem with my alsa settings... is the sampling rate off? Is it some kind of buffering issue? I skimmed through the asound.state file to see if there was anything in there I could easily tweak, but I didn't know what to/not to touch. Is this something I might need to tweak with amixer? Any ides would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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