Choppy Sound Dell Mini 10

You could try playing to ALSA directly, in case the almighty PulseAudio is the culprit (the software daemon that allows multiple streams to be played at once) - ALSA is the default sound system on Puppy Linux.

A quick test case:

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.

3.. Stop the existing PulseAudio daemon from running:

pulseaudio --kill

4.. 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.


If this improves the choppy sound, then PulseAudio is the problem and we can suggest some possible fixes.

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