I'm hearing something similar to this as well on a Thinkpad T60p with Jaunty installed.
At times it crackles and buzzes, like interference or static. It seems correlated with showing notifications from IMs, when people come online and things like that. Playing the preview sounds in Pigdin preferences has no crackle, and playng music etc. works fine on the computer. Still, disabling sounds in pidgin altogether seems to fix the issue. $ uname -a Linux stoffe-t60p 2.6.28-10-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 17 12:27:50 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-cache policy alsa-base alsa-base: Installed: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu5 Candidate: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu5 Version table: *** 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- intermitten buzzing from speakers using hda-intel alsa on dell mini 9 jaunty netbook remix https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs