> Well, ALSA is not good about drop outs, at least compared to the OSS on a > typical 16 bits card, it eats less CPU, than OSS but you get the drop outs > more easily with ALSA, I don't know what causes this, I don't know if the > ALSA guys have plans to improve this, but it would be a good thing. I don't know if this is related, but I've seen "drop outs" like what happen with the Linux driver occur under Windows and be fixed by a video driver upgrade.