Speakers have a crackling noise

[Alex]

I am using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 fully upgraded to Ubuntu Studio

The crackling started suddenly one day after moving my speakers to another computer and then back again to this one. It seems to be happening when the computer working, and happens both when using Jack and when not. I also get the following error everytime I open Amarok, my chosen music player:

phonon - The audio playback device HD Intel (VT1708B Analog) does not work. Falling back to default.

I don't know if that's related or not, but it seems notable.

I followed this link:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems

but with no luck. I tried to get the sound information that is asked for reporting sound bugs by typing 'sudo bash alsa-info.sh' in the command-line but was told there is no such file or directory. I'm new at all of this, so I apologize for my ignorance in not knowing what further I can do about this. But I am willing to help any way I can.

Thanks everyone for your time and patience.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.31
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1c6dbe3e-67cf-430b-b4b8-47ecf64264f0 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.31-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Alex,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 359769

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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