I just did a fresh install of Xubuntu 10.04 and am getting this error as well.
uname -a Linux julie-toy 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Running pulseaudio in a terminal gives this: E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4294952016 bytes (24347800 ms). E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_cmipci'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'C-Media CMI8738' device 0 subdevice 0 E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192 E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759 E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15503 E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824 E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824 E: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 6000369 E: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 5980165 E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 398112 bytes (2256 ms). E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_cmipci'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'C-Media CMI8738' device 0 subdevice 0 E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192 E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759 E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15503 E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824 E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824 E: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 6079749 E: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 5980221 -- pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated errors not caught by apport https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532586 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs