> I'm assuming the position_fix hack won't do anything, since my audio is 100% fine under alsa.
This assumption is wrong. PulseAudio relies on hardware positions to be accurate any time; where as if you use alsa without pulseaudio, you're very likely only relying on hardware positions to be accurate at period boundaries.
> I'm assuming the position_fix hack won't do anything, since my audio is 100% fine under alsa.
This assumption is wrong. PulseAudio relies on hardware positions to be accurate any time; where as if you use alsa without pulseaudio, you're very likely only relying on hardware positions to be accurate at period boundaries.