Choppy audio when starting QjackCtl

**lucedan** · March 13th, 2020

Hi all, I am not sure this is the right section for this issue:

I had a Lenovo C640 computer that worked flawlessly, and had no problems when installing and running QjackCtl. Unfortunately it happened that a ladder fell onto it, and had to change my computer with another Lenovo C640.

This time, however (same OS: Ubuntu 19.10), I am having some troubles. I just installed QjackCtl, and when I start it, I have this glitchy/choppy sound. Can somebody help me fix this?

**u666sa** · March 13th, 2020

What’s up. I have acer and had similar problems. This could be a long shot but solution for me was looking into my headphone jack and realizing broken headphone connector was stuck inside it. Try sticking headphones in atleast and teporting on chopiness.

**slickymaster** · March 13th, 2020

Thread moved to Multimedia Software.

**lucedan** · March 13th, 2020

Hi u666sa, thanks for your advice. Just tried to connect my headphones and I get the exact same result. So it looks like something other happened. Is there any official to-do-list to install all dependencies required in the right order to have QjackCtl (theoretically) working fine? So we can start from there? I may have made something wrong when installing things.