HDA intel sound is 'scratchy'

[donald]

I have an Intel High Definition Audio onboard soundcard, and with the default Dapper install, the sound I get is scratchy, particularly in the left speaker.

I also had this problem with Breezy. I fixed it then by downloading the latest alsa-drivers package at the time (1.0.10) from the ALSA website, compiling from source, and setting up using alsaconf.

What's funny with Dapper is that the default alsa-drivers package is the exact same version, yet I got scratchy sound again. To fix it, I installed the alsa-drivers source package with Synaptic, recompiled with:
# ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
# make
# make install
then ran:
# sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
# sudo alsaconf
# sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound start
and everything works fine, as for Breezy. Why did it not work with the default install??? Could it have anything to do with the fact that I upgraded from Breezy, rather than doing a fresh install?

Anyway, just thought I'd report it, shouldn't be too hard to fix.

I've included some extra info below.
Thanks,

Donald.

lspci -v:

0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0013
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58
        Memory at 95200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] #10 [0091]

/etc/modprobe.d/sound:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

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alsa-driver (1.0.14-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/alsa-base.modprobe: Load snd-seq,
    - debian/alsa-base.postinst: Forcibly remove /etc/modprobe.d/sound
      on dist-upgrade,
    - debian/control: Don't Depend on modutils, and adhere to
      DebianMaintainerField,
    - debian/linux-sound-base.dirs: Don't create modutils or discover,
    - debian/rules: Enable MPU for snd-cmipci,
    - Only ship modprobe configuration,
    - Remove default mode,
    - Invoke modprobe with -Qb and command line options,
    - Remove modprobe post-install script in favour of using udev,
    - Continue to ship the initscript in the apm scripts dir.
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    LP: #59569, LP: #63971, LP: #66843, LP: #68930, LP: #75725,
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    LP: #92358, LP: #95597, LP: #108563, LP: #110599, LP: #115186,
    LP: #118173, LP: #119086.

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  * New upstream release. (closes: #391991, #401074, #421853)

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * debian/control: add XS-Vcs-Browser and XS-Vcs-Svn headers.

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]

  * Patch management switched to quilt. This is more comfortable.
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf templates.
    Thanks, debian-l10n-english contributors (closes: #425208).
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf translations:
    Galician: Jacobo Tarrio (closes: #425804).
    Japanese: Kenshi Muto (closes: #426007).
    Portuguese: Traduz (closes: #426111).
    Malayalam: Praveen A (closes: #426241).
    German: Helge Kreutzmann (closes: #426375).
    Czech: Miroslav Kure (closes: #426427).
    Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall (closes: #427148).
    Dutch: Bart Cornelis (closes: #428032).
    Russian: Yuri Kozlov (closes: #428136).
    Spanish: Carlos Galisteo de Cabo (closes: #428572)
    Swedish: Daniel Nylander (closes: #426202)
    Catalan: Jordi Mallach (closes: #428224)
  * Added alsa-drivers debconf templates translations:
    Basque: Piarres Beobide (closes: #425810).
    Bulgarian: Damyan Ivanov (closes: #425854).
    Tamil: Tirumurti Vasudevan (closes: #426081).
    Italian: Luca Monducci (closes: #426152).
    Korean: Sunjae Park (closes: #426618).
    Arabic: Ossama Khayat (closes: #428264)

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  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate.
  * Added Malayalam translation. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal. (closes: #419524)

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  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
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  * Merged etch changes

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  * New upstream release candidate
  * Removed debian/patches/98_ens1371_inaudible_sound_def.dpatch. Applied
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