It works fine with ICH6 again since Edgy, on the same hardware which had issues in Dapper.
** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Mplayer sound playback is choppy when using ALSA plugin https://launchpad.net/bugs/37020 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs