On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:54 PM, kieran magee <kiergbm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some strange anomalies were occuring in my audio systems, namely, volume > fluctuations during playback. Attempted to access sound in preferences, had > disabled pulseaudio a while back with no ill effects, (weeks back), I > couldn't access the menu Item. I was instructed that pulseaudio not running > may be the issue, so attempted to launch that and came upon this worrying > error message, > > E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is > less than avail 16. > E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver > 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. This error was fixed in alsa-lib. http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commit;h=aba87e509898ec9ddb3e319267d7c267409ff100 It has nothing to do with your volume control issues. -Pierre _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel