I came across what I believe to be this issue: When playing a file in Rhythmbox I would get crackly audio when scrolling in Chromium (was getting crackly audio while using other applications too, but scrolling in Chromium was the most reliable way to reproduce it). None of the solutions for crackly audio I found did anything.
After trawling through plenty of open bug reports I came across this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/578342 which suggested it had something to do with the video driver. While I don't have a Radeon card, I was using the Nouveau driver (instead of the proprietary nvidia one). Changing to the nvidia driver fixed the issue for me. I thought I'd mention it here because I haven't found this solution mentioned anywhere else, and it seems related to the issue described here. I don't understand why this work around worked for me, nor do I know how to go about contributing information to see the issue resolved. Hopefully this helps someone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879790 Title: Sound doesn't play properly after upgrade from 11.04->11.10, also affects 12.04 Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver: Confirmed Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After the upgrade from Natty to Oneiric the sound that is played (by any program ex. banshee, VLC, Flash) sound very awkward, like if the whole sound is slightly gargling. My computer: Thinkpad T60 Already tried to solve the problem: The german ubuntuforum has a wiki- page to solve sound problems (http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Sound_Problembehebung). Unfortunately, nothing helped - even a reinstalling of the Alsa-Module didn't solve the problem. Hence I think this is a bug. Special: In the thread that I opened in the german forum (http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/nach-upgrade-11-04-auf-11-10 -ueberschlaegt-der-ton/) there was another user that has the same Problem AND he has the same computer as I do. Therefore, I'm not sure if it is a computerspecific problem that may be connected with the chipset of the T60... Thanks Quesst To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/879790/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
