2009/1/8 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>: > Which ALSA sound driver is used? Here's the lspci output for snd devices: [root at localhost chris]# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd snd_ice1712 56456 3 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 7040 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ak4xxx_adda 11136 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_cs8427 10880 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ac97_codec 96672 1 snd_ice1712 snd_seq_dummy 6660 0 snd_seq_oss 30364 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48320 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 41600 0 snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 64772 4 snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21896 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 1 snd_pcm ac97_bus 5504 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_i2c 8320 2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427 snd_mpu401_uart 10368 1 snd_ice1712 snd_rawmidi 22272 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9996 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd 51768 20 snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 9416 1 snd I've been playing with the default-fragments and default-fragment-size-msec settings but they don't seem to be having any effect. I'm just getting occasional skipping now - maybe one skip of a fraction of a second every 3 to 5 seconds. The bad crackling went when I set tsched=1. Thanks, Chris.