I've had a problem similar to #2 (on both my ion boxes) and yesterday I found a solution that may work for some of you.<br><br>In my logs I had this error: <font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> ALSA, Error: Error opening /proc/asound/card0/pcm1p/sub0/<b style="color: black; background-color: #FFFF80">prealloc</b>: Permission denied. <br>
<br>I checked the /proc/sound/card0/ directory and it didn't include any sub-directories.<br>I found that for these directories to exists, </font></font>"Verbose procfs contents" had to be enabled under the alsa config in the kernel. <br>
Enabled, recompiled the kernel and all my pauses were gone.<br>These were mostly SD pauses, I don't recall HD ever giving me a problem.<br>I am running trunk as of 2 days ago.<br><br>Lee<br><br>