and this is showing up in syslog when using the sigmatel card: alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 14080 bytes. alsa-sink.c: Limited to 14080 bytes. alsa-sink.c: before: 3520 alsa-sink.c: after: 3520 alsa-sink.c: Rewound 14080 bytes. /Magnus <div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/30 Magnus Örstig <<a href="mailto:orstig@gmail.com">orstig@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, i have a have a setup with two sound cards, one on the motherboard (Card: HDA Intel Chip: SigmaTel STAC9274D) and one on my gfx card (Card: HDA NVidia Chip: Nvidia GT220 HDMI), the one on the gfx card works flawless but the the one on the motherboard often breaks and just makes very bad sounds, this can happen after a pause/stop or when i change volume and i have to restart pulseaudio to get it to work again. I have also tried to change the gfx card to one with no on board sound card but the one on the motherboard doesn't work any better. Anyone got a suggestion how to fix this? thanks /Magnus </blockquote></div>