Hi Guys,      Happy New Year! I was wondering if anybody was experiencing random cracks and pops (loud ones actually :( ) while using pulseaudio with intelHDA? I have the following configuration for my inbuilt intelHDA card and will be thankful if somebody helped me out here. I haven't observed cracks and pops on my other card (Griffin iMic). I am using pulseaudio 0.9.8 which is able to acquire realtime scheduling priority and a nice level of -11. ALSA (asound.conf): pcm.!default {         type pulse } ctl.!default {         type pulse } pcm.intelHDA {         type softvol         slave.pcm "hw:0,0"         <a href="http://control.name" target="_blank"> control.name</a> "Master"         control.card 0 } ctl.intelHDA {         type hw         card 0 } pcm.iMic {         type hw         card 1 } #ctl.iMic { #       type hw #       card 1 #} <a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a>: load-module module-alsa-sink device=intelHDA sink_name=Spkr rate=192000 load-module module-alsa-sink device=iMic sink_name=HeadPh rate=48000 load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-suspend-on-idle set-default-sink Spkr output of pulseaudio -vvC I: main.c: We're in the group 'realtime', allowing real-time and high-priority scheduling. I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I: main.c: Successfully increased RLIMIT_RTPRIO, giving up CAP_NICE. W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit! I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully opened device intelHDA. I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully enabled mmap() mode. I: alsa-util.c: Successfully attached to mixer 'intelHDA' I: alsa-util.c: Using mixer control "Master". I: sink.c: Created sink 0 "Spkr" with sample spec "s16le 2ch 192000Hz" I: source.c: Created source 0 "Spkr.monitor" with sample spec "s16le 2ch 192000Hz" I: module-alsa-sink.c: Using 3 fragments of size 19200 bytes. I: alsa-util.c: All 2 channels can be mapped to mixer channels. Using hardware volume control. D: module-alsa-sink.c: Thread starting up I: core-util.c : Successfully enabled SCHED_FIFO scheduling for thread, with priority 5. D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+29 I: module-alsa-sink.c: Starting playback. I: module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #0; argument: "device=intelHDA sink_name=Spkr rate=192000"). I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully opened device iMic. I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully enabled mmap() mode. ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL iMic I: alsa-util.c: Unable to attach to mixer iMic: No such file or directory I: alsa-util.c: Unable to attach to mixer hw:(null): No such device I: sink.c: Created sink 1 "HeadPh" with sample spec "s16le 2ch 48000Hz" I: source.c: Created source 1 "HeadPh.monitor " with sample spec "s16le 2ch 48000Hz" I: module-alsa-sink.c: Using 4 fragments of size 4796 bytes. D: module-alsa-sink.c: Thread starting up I: core-util.c: Successfully enabled SCHED_FIFO scheduling for thread, with priority 5. D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+28 I: module-alsa-sink.c: Starting playback. I: module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #1; argument: "device=iMic sink_name=HeadPh rate=48000"). I: protocol-native.c: loading cookie from disk. I: module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #2; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #3; argument: ""). D: module-suspend-on-idle.c : Sink Spkr becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink HeadPh becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source Spkr.monitor becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source HeadPh.monitor becomes idle. I: module.c: Loaded "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #4; argument: ""). I: client.c: Created 0 "STDIN/STDOUT client" I: module.c: Loaded "module-cli" (index: #5; argument: "exit_on_eof=1"). I: main.c: Daemon startup complete. Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information. >>> I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink Spkr idle for too long, suspending ... I: module-alsa-sink.c : Device suspended... I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source HeadPh.monitor idle for too long, suspending ... I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source Spkr.monitor idle for too long, suspending ... I: module-suspend-on-idle.c : Sink HeadPh idle for too long, suspending ... I: module-alsa-sink.c: Device suspended... I also tried appending fragments and fragment_size options at the end of the intelHDA alsa sink configuration but it still reports "Using 3 fragments of size 19200 bytes.". I was hoping to improve buffering but it seems I am hitting on a bug here. I used to run dmix with my intelHDA running at rate 192000Hz without any problems. Plus, the cracks and pops come using both alsa-pulse and gst-pulse. Thanks in advance for the help. _r