Hello everypony, I want to increase my default alsa buffer_size of 8192 to 32768 because I'm sometimes getting small skips in my audio. Now, usually people use dmix for this. I'm using the upmix plugin, however, to listen to stereo music on my 7.1 system. Could any alsa wizards share the wisdom on how to increase the buffer_size without dmix or how to chain dmix into this? My also asound.conf: pcm.upmix71 { type upmix slave.pcm "surround71" channels 8 } pcm.!default "plug:upmix71" Now, I tried something along these lines: pcm.upmix71 { type upmix slave.pcm "buffer" channels 8 } pcm.buffer { type dmix slave { pcm "surround71" period_time 0 buffer_time 0 period_size 2028 buffer_size 32768 } } pcm.!default "plug:upmix71" but apparently I don't grok alsa configuration syntax. It doesn't help that alsa-project.org is down (which is why I'm posting here rather than on their mailing list). I don't even need dmix itself, I just want to increase the buffer size but apparently dmix is the only plugin capable of doing just that. Help appreciated. -- Sven-Hendrik