[LAU] Intel-HDA sound issues

[Frank Wales]

Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> Nigel Henry:
>> If your soundcard is hda intel, there is a known problem, where
>> crackling occurs if the "Periods/Buffer is set to the default "2".
>> The cure is to open Qjackctl's setup, settings, and change it to "3".
> 
> I wish people would stop repeating this obsolete info. Use a recent 
> alsa version instead, doesn't have to be bleeding edge, any version 
> from after beginning 2008 should do.

Well, I don't consider it obsolete, since it just fixed the crackling
I was having on my Asus Eee running a fully-updated Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1,
which should make it current enough, as far as I know.
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Frank Wales [frank at limov.com]