[Alsa-user] ALC887-VD choppy sound playback

[László M. <la...@mo...>]

Hi List,

My mainboard has an integrated ALC887-VD chipset and the audio that it
produces is extremely choppy out of the box on Linux Mint 17 Qiana.

After I shut down pulseaudio and played around with kernel module
parameters I figured that `modprobe snd-hda-intel position_fix=1` has
somewhat improved my situation.  It made playback quite smooth with
occasional crackling sounds.  Unfortunately, it only worked with some
movie players like mplayer and totem and failed to work with games.

I uploaded my ALSA information to
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=18ae83af44d8e0d5732f9792e2eb0af37b9c5c36

By the way, is ALSA support dead?  The discontinued ALSA bugtracker at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/alsa-mantis and the dead
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug link referenced from
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page doesn't instill
much hope.

Thanks!

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László Monda <http://monda.hu>