Sound ALMOST gone.

[cj]

Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> It's there. In fact it's constantly there. It's this awful "sputtering"
> sound (I had to turn off the speakers).  At some point some update or
> program that was installed seemed to bring this on and I have no clue
> what to do.
>
> When I do have the speakers on and play something you can hear it, but
> just barely. It's almost obliterated by the sputtering/popping sound.
>
> I've got this problem on two different computers running Feisty right
> now. One has onboard sound and the primary one I use has a SoundBlaster
> Audigy card.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>   
i had thsi problem too. it seems that the alsa drivers that come with 
ubuntu dont support HD audio cards, so i upgraded my alsa drivers.

BTW, is your sound card alsa or OSS?

--cj