Sound is sparky/choppy

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I had the same problem after upgrading from 8.something to Ubuntu 9.04. The sound was stuttering horribly, even though everything else in Ubuntu seemed to work fine, audio-wise.

After some searching I think it's partially due to the "new" audio system Pulseaudio, which still seems to have lots of issues.

So I followed this advice and uninstalled it:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-all-pu...ssues.html

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sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
and
sudo apt-get install esound
sudo reboot

Sound in Penumbra works now. However it sounds a bit low quality and loud noises sound over-amplified and scratchy. Still, much better than before.

Maybe I'll reininstall Pulseaudio in a future version