On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:54 PM, kieran magee kiergbm@gmail.com wrote:
Some strange anomalies were occuring in my audio systems, namely, volume fluctuations during playback. Attempted to access sound in preferences, had disabled pulseaudio a while back with no ill effects, (weeks back), I couldn't access the menu Item. I was instructed that pulseaudio not running may be the issue, so attempted to launch that and came upon this worrying error message,
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is less than avail 16. E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
This error was fixed in alsa-lib. http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commit;h=aba87e509898ec9ddb3e3... It has nothing to do with your volume control issues. -Pierre