Hi, Firstly a general thanks for your reply. I'll pass this info along to the relevant parties. Lennart Poettering wrote: >> although I use it daily. (This was with GStreamer set again to use Alsa, >> but I guess that means Alsa output was being intercepted by Pulseaudio, >> as it was using CPU time again). Anyway, the sound stuttering also >> happened to me yesterday when I was piping output directly to >> Pulseaudio. > > Stuttering? Souns like you get buffer underruns. What kind of kernel > is this? Please make sure to run a kernel with HZ=1000 and > CONFIG_PREEMPT. If your kernel doesn't have that, then I kindly ask to > change distribution to something that is more useful for desktop > use. (i.e. install Fedora!) Cheeky ;) The desktop kernel does have these settings, so that's not an issue in this case. >> alsa_output.pci_10de_59_alsa_playback_0 with sample spec s16le 2ch >> 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right >> D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=70560, tlength=35280, >> base=4, prebuf=33516, minreq=1764 >> D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=70560, tlength=35280, >> base=4, prebuf=33516, minreq=1764 >> >> >> Anyone have similar experience? > > No! Glad to hear it. :) I've not been able to reproduce personally either. I'll pass your full reply on the person having the troubles. Thanks loads :) Col