diff -aur alsa-lib-1.0.16.orig/src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c alsa-lib-1.0.16/src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c
--- alsa-lib-1.0.16.orig/src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c	2008-02-05 01:23:45.000000000 -0800
+++ alsa-lib-1.0.16/src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c	2008-04-26 22:47:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
 
 	/* the slave_app_ptr can be far behing the slave_hw_ptr */
 	/* reduce mixing and errors here - just skip not catched writes */
-	if (dmix->slave_hw_ptr < dmix->slave_appl_ptr)
+	if (dmix->slave_hw_ptr <= dmix->slave_appl_ptr)
 		slave_size = dmix->slave_appl_ptr - dmix->slave_hw_ptr;
 	else
 		slave_size = dmix->slave_appl_ptr + (dmix->slave_boundary - dmix->slave_hw_ptr);