The livecd installer, and the first boot into the newly installed desktop, had the customary stuttering and repeating, but an update of all pending packages + a reboot and the login sound was perfect.
All subsequent sounds are fine also. This is on a HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
Karmic Alpha3 64bit solved this for me.
The livecd installer, and the first boot into the newly installed desktop, had the customary stuttering and repeating, but an update of all pending packages + a reboot and the login sound was perfect.
All subsequent sounds are fine also. This is on a HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
:~$ sudo lshw -C multimedia
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 df300000- df303fff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:22 memory:
:~$ uname -a
Linux aetna 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Aug 1 12:47:58 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux