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I just bought a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with a Realtek HD ALC269 sound card and whatever sound it produces, it's broken. If I can't fix it, will have to put it back into WinXP and my little son will get used to M$ products!!!

Please help!!!

Some extra info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5babb67a654bb45c8cd1721ec716ed38f9f840c1

Update: This is how "Again" from Lenny Kravitz sounds: https://clyp.it/cwrslpt2

rreyes1979
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  1. Close any open audio programs.
  2. Stop the daemon from respawning:

sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf

Uncomment the line that reads:

; autospawn = yes

to say:

autospawn = no

Then press CTRL+X to save these changes.

  1. Stop the existing PulseAudio daemon from running:

pulseaudio --kill

  1. Now try playing an audio file from a media player of your choice. This will play directly to the hardware, but will mean only one program can play sound at a time.

To revert: Comment the line again (with a ;), and type pulseaudio into the terminal to start the daemon again.

Source: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/choppy-sound-dell-mini-10/2401/3

UPDATE: If you want to keep pulseaudio active, edit /etc/pulse/default.pa, find the following line:

load-module module-udev-detect

and append "tsched=0" to the end:

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

restart pulse (or just reboot your system), and the crackling should be gone.

Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/201747/52568

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rreyes1979
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The HDA audio chips need sometimes a manual intervention to make them work correctly. Try the following and see if it corrects your issues:

sudo modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel model=dell

repeat both steps with model=lifebook and model=laptop-amic instead of model=dell if the first step was not successful.

If you are happy with one of the options, you should make it permanent.

With sudo, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add the line

options snd-hda-intel model=XXX

with XXX being the option you identified above.

I have seen one report of getting problem-free audio after apt purge pulseaudio, but this seems a bit drastic for me. But you can try if nothing else works - the machine works fine with ALSA alone, and on a system like this, you won't benefit from pulseaudio's features anyway.

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