How do I change sound buffer size on my soundcard?

[natirips]

I recently upgraded from 7.10 to 804 and now I'm getting blocky sound each now and then, and I believe it's because of too small sound buffer in memory (the soundcard is integrated in my laptop's motherboard (laptop is Acer Aspire 5520G) but I think the card itself doesn't matter, because the sound worked just fine before (with Ubuntu 7.10)).

So, how do I change sound buffer size for (my) soundcard?

[eel]

same problem here, i had not yet thought of a soundcard buffer problem although it really makes sense. I even have problems when starting up sometimes, the login sounds getting stuck in eternal echo.

[natirips]

same problem here, i had not yet thought of a soundcard buffer problem although it really makes sense. I even have problems when starting up sometimes, the login sounds getting stuck in eternal echo.

My issue is a bit different though, it doesn't repeat/skip, it just makes noises like a CD player when it gets hit - blocks for a short period of time (like 20-50ms) and then continues plying. I used to hear the same noise on computers when the CPU load is 100% or disk is being read/write furiously. But now it happens all the time, even when CPU/disk usage is cca. 0%. I'm almost definitely sure it's the buffer.

[spodesabode]

I'm getting the same issue after upgrading too. I'm frustratingly still looking for an answer.

[Teloid]

Have same problem when Xorg use more then 30% of CPU.