With the attached conf file I have not experienced any crackling/stottering so far. It seems that the most important option for my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M40) is 'realtime-priority = 0'. I don't know what's the disadvantage of setting this priority to the max, but it works for me.
My system: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
With the attached conf file I have not experienced any crackling/ stottering so far. It seems that the most important option for my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M40) is 'realtime-priority = 0'. I don't know what's the disadvantage of setting this priority to the max, but it works for me.
My system: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux