> Here's an oddity: with the CPU maxxed-out by a rogue process, audio > played smoothly with no underruns. But as soon as I killed the > rogue process, choppy, interrupted audio resumed.
Has the kernel been updated? Perhaps some defaults were changed. This could be power management related, e.g. if the CPU is placed in low power mode but then doesn't wake up in time to refill the audio buffer. Cheers, Adam.
