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ALSA is a persistent problem all over the internet for linux users. I found one forum thread from 2004; exact same problems. I used to dual-boot crunchbang and windows and alsa is quieter than whatever is running the windows audio. It's just what it is, you know?

I've gone through the xfce gui, the alsamixer gui, the command line, but there's a setting somewhere that's keeping my audio capped. Not a critical bug, but it's certainly annoying when ALSA isn't utilizing the full power of even my puny netbook's little audio card...

I have to add my thanks to everyone on the first 10 pages of this thread. I stripped Conky down to something more fitting for my little netbook and I wouldn't've know what to do without all the contributions here. Here's what my little work in progress looks like:

And the code i'm using:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont sans:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 20 20
maximum_width 125
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color d8d8d8
default_shade_color 000000
default_outline_color d9d7d6
alignment top_left
gap_x 12
gap_y 10
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
##############################################
#  Output
##############################################
TEXT
${alignc}$nodename
${alignc}${addr wlan0}

${battery_bar 8,125 BAT0}
${alignc}${battery_time}

${cpubar cpu0 8,125}
#${alignc}${cpu 0}%
${membar 8,125}
${alignc}${mem}

${fs_bar 8,125 /root}
${fs_bar 8,125 /home}

${wireless_link_bar 8,125 wlan0}

${hwmon temp 1}°C

Down: ${downspeedf wlan0} ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Up: ${upspeedf wlan0} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}

I've been using gmail and the google calendar thing they have. (It's nice 'cause I got the sports schedules as CSVs and then got them uploaded ^_^ )

I'll frontpage that. And I like the custom alien, but is there some backstory on the ninja mascot?

I've had a similar experience with crunchbang dragging it's feet even while the system reports little to no activity from the CPU or out of RAM. It seems to be flash and/or javascript in firefox. With Vista x64 numerous web scripts open, run, and update smoothly. Inside crunchbang I get persistent lockups when even just one script is running.

Though that's mostly conjecture and mostly my perception with testing Google Wave under both operating systems.

For some reason the XML doesn't seem to process the XF86 signals for me; I can't get any XF86 key to send commands to the command line. However, xbindkeys works, though the GUI is kinda ugly. Not that looks count with such easy functionality.

For now I'm stuck with a laggy command "volwheel -*" but now I can zap those damn ads on Hulu every time they jump up with their extra loud volume!