On 01/21/2011 03:28 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > It does not work for ice1712 based audio cards while ALSA works > perfectly with those cards. > > Heiko So the ALSA drivers don't do what they're supposed to and that PA's problem? If it doesn't work on your card, don't use it. It's why I don't use OSS on my laptop. And remember, what I was replying to was: > > Lennart is the same person behind Pulse Audio, a known problematic sound > > daemon. If your ALSA drivers are broken and don't support the feature PA uses, then don't use it. It doesn't make it bad software.