For my Gentoo installation restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound fixes the issue. 
It even works from within X (unless sound is playing, of course). It seems to 
be a race condition.

Regards
Jan Hackel

On Monday 09 April 2007 18:39, Link Ray Swanson wrote:
> I have a terrible crackle/distortion on the left output of my coreduo
> MacBookPro 17" with any linux distro. The crunch/crackle is the same in
> OpenSUSE, Fedora 6, Mandriva, and my currently installed distro, Ubuntu
> Feisty Beta. The problem is not present in OS X or (gasp) Windows Vista.
> It sounds the same through onboard speakers, headphones, or external
> speakers. The right channel sounds perfect.
>
> Any clues? Perhaps an ALSA config? Setting in alsamixer?
>
> Please advise
>
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