On Wednesday 19 March 2008 23:19, Peter Belew wrote: > My problem is that sound takes a long time to start up after system boot. > Sometimes I have to reload or restart the Alsa daemons, which sometimes > seems to help. Playing music for a long time will eventually cause sound > output to start. > > Peter Hi, To me, it looks more like a hardware problem. Can you check with other OS, distribid? Thierry