Olindo Pindaro wrote:
> My installation of ubuntu (7.10 and 8.4 beta either, P4P800 intel mobo
> using AD1985 chipset) sounds very awful
>
> As if CPU has problem to process sound.. I use PCM output with coax SPDIF.
>
> In a previous installation of 7.10, sound works fine even if no system
> sound effects were available (as click, boing or ubuntu startup music)
>
> Help me! I don't want to came back to windows to listen music or watching
> movies.
>
> regards
> Olindo
>


Awful how?

>>
>>
>
> Awful how?
very frequent an very short sound interruptions, as problem in PCM stream
regular flowing, but it appares always "on" looking to my Yamaha HT
Amplifier.

---HW details
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 module=snd_intel8x0

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:08:27 +0000, Olindo Pindaro wrote:

>
>>>
>>>
>> Awful how?
> very frequent an very short sound interruptions, as problem in PCM stream
> regular flowing, but it appares always "on" looking to my Yamaha HT
> Amplifier.
>
> ---HW details
> *-multimedia
> description: Multimedia audio controller product: 82801EB/ER
> (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 1f.5
> bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
> version: 02
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
> configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 module=snd_intel8x0

Any clues using dmesg?

I switched to OSS instead of Pulse Audio. Now works fine... probably bug
in Pulse...