Ubuntu 11.04 sound problems

[Gushter13]

Ever since the Ubuntu 11.04 came out I've had trouble with sound on that version. I know my PC may be outdated, but I never had any problems on the previous versions.

My problem is this:

When I play any kind of audio (either MP3 or sound from a video) the sound start to stutter or crackle every half a minute or so. I may be just me, nut i think that the more I use my PC the more frequent the stuttering is. It's so annoying!

I've tried many things:

I did an upgrade from 10.10, a clean install, tried other variants, tried using ALSA drivers, tried changing pulseaudio buffering values in the daemon file, but to no avail! Also I've noticed that I don't have any problems on fedora 15. Any ideas? :confused: :confused: :confused:

I really hope that my soundcard isn't becoming unsupported! I'm using a Realtek AC'97 soundcard that is integrated on my Asus A8N-SLI motherboard.

[lidex]

Use the alsa-info-script to provide detailed information.
Run this command in a terminal:

wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
Choose the upload option and provide a link for the output.
[Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"]

[Gushter13]

The script doesn't seem to give me the link to the log.


I get this output:

Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ... Done!

Your ALSA information is located at
Please inform the person helping you.

[lidex]

Just select n to save to your /tmp folder and upload here as an attachment.

[Gushter13]

I got the script to upload!

Here's the link:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=94fe70614687193763400af5b67f2fb91998a3a1

[Gushter13]

Could the problem be caused because I'm running 32-bit version on a 64-bit architecture?

[Gushter13]

I've tried everything from this thread and to no avail!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1759570

[Gushter13]

Double post ... sry -_-

[lidex]

alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd_intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd_hda_intel
alias sound-slot-1 snd_hda_intel
alias snd-card-2 snd_mpu401
alias sound-slot-2 snd_mpu401
Add that block of text to alsa-base.conf, save and reboot.
To edit:

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

[Gushter13]

Didn't work. Somehow i think that it's linked to the kernel load, because when the pc is only playing music, the stuttering seems less frequent

[imsushantjain]

alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd_intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd_hda_intel
alias sound-slot-1 snd_hda_intel
alias snd-card-2 snd_mpu401
alias sound-slot-2 snd_mpu401
Add that block of text to alsa-base.conf, save and reboot.
To edit:

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf


Hi Lidex, i need your advice

i have 5742z, but the output from speaker is not upto mark.
this is the link i got after uploading info to alsamixer
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0620d2470e90bab1b2144e9aafb1db47678289a6

[imsushantjain]

i mean Acer 5742Z

and you can see the configuration at http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/2010/Acer/Aspire/Aspire5742Z/Aspire5742Zsp2.shtml

please do suggest some good drivers as well

[lidex]

i mean Acer 5742Z

and you can see the configuration at http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/2010/Acer/Aspire/Aspire5742Z/Aspire5742Zsp2.shtml

please do suggest some good drivers as well

You added the model=acer-aspire to alsa-base.conf, remove it please. Now update your kernel. You're using 2.6.38-8 and I believe 2.6.38-10 is available.

[Heretic Zed]

I'm having the same problem with my laptop, but it only started in the past few weeks. up until then my sound was working fine. Now, after a restart the sound plays fine for a while, the built in controls on my laptop work fine, then for no apparent reason I change songs and from then on I get garbled music. If I close the player and wait a while the problem fixes itself for an indeterminate amount of time before the problem starts again.

Additionally, movie player no longer functions, sound will play but the window for the program itself will not display, preventing any play list editing or video. this is another problem that had only started in the past few weeks.

I've switched my video watching over to VLC but the music thing is annoying.

The laptop is at least a five year old Toshiba. 11.04 worked fine until a few weeks ago.

[lwtazt]

The same problem in my laptop.But I can not find the solution now.Give me some advice.Thanks.