Description of problem: After fresh installation, firstboot start sound configuration utility. When I push the button play it takes some time to start to play and when it starts the sound is very bad and chopy. Could not understand if it's music or not. It look like very close to bug #161279. I have tried reconfiguring alsa as in example in this bug, but nothings happen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: MainBoard: GA-7VAX (sound card on board) CPU: Athlon 1800+ RAM: 512 Video: ATI Radeon 7500 HDD: 80GB 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC650) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
It looks like first try then read... After testing a lot of things I have found there is and solution of this problem. Just put the "acpi=off" as boot option.
okay, thanks for your report.