Stuttering Playback

[crunch182]

Hey,

That seemed to have work thanks but now I'm back to my jittery/stuttery playback of sound.  Can you help with this?  I don't want to end up repeating this troubleshooting cycle thanks.

My first step of course though will be restarting my system and listening to other sounds to see if it's the same output.

[shaggytwodope]

What is producing the broken sound, flash video, vlc, videos, mp3s etc?

[crunch182]

I played the default wav sound from the terminal and it stuttered.  I also tried a video on the internet at varying speeds/video quality to no luck.  Finally, I tried a music file off an external usb stick and no luck.  Each of these files all stuttered/struggled to play.

[shaggytwodope]

It may be necessary to add a model option to your alsa-base.conf file, open it by typing in a terminal:

Code:

sudo leafpad /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

and pasting only the below line as is, on the bottom of the file, on its own new line.

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell

Then proceed to reboot, and test audio. If this does not work we may need to test other model options.

A brief reason why, is that the driver tries to do an automatic set for proper flags and in doing so it sometimes gets this wrong. The intel audio is basiclly one of the most common drivers for audio hardware. Because the hardware varies so much we may need to use different model options. Typically this is the cause of your issue of messed up audio, I hope this fixes it. If not we try until it is :-p

[crunch182]

Hey,

I tried editing the file, making sure to save it, and rebooting but to no avail?

[shaggytwodope]

What is the model of your computer?

[crunch182]

I am using a dell mini 1010, I believe that the audio driver is supposed to be a dell-multi-driver - I think.

[shaggytwodope]

Re-open your configuration file as you have previously,

Code:

sudo leafpad /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

And remove the line you previously added. (or you can place a # in front of it to disable, but its much easier to simply delete the line you can reference this thread later if need be.)

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell

After you remove the line above enter these lines as is and save the file, exit and reboot. Hopefully it should be solved.

Code:

# Stuff you Added.
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=basic

The developers for the Linux kernel love to change things and not document it very well. As I believe I explained before this is quite troublesome as this singular driver provides functionality to hundreds of chip sets. It continuously changing and annoying for certain pieces of hardware. If this again does not solve the issue, we resolve to find a fix for you if possible.

If you are wondering what it will look like as a whole file you can vist here.

[crunch182]

I tried this, and unfortunately it didn't work - still stuttering?

[crunch182]

Anyone got any suggestions for my stuttering audio, I guess trying other audio configurations? :o