Comment 9 for bug 274424

I experience sililar problems with echoes and skips every second or so, but
* the playback does _not_ repeat until the process is closed.
* I have another sound card:
lshw -c multimedia:
  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel
* While moving windows fast and randomly (Gnome), the movement stops every two seconds or so for a short moment. It really does not disturb me, but it might be these stops result from the same reason as the skips in the sound playback.

To be honest, I'm quite disappointed. I just changed from Gentoo, where the drivers worked fast and smooth and the applications were buggy to Ubuntu: Now the desktop is doing what I want, but slower, and in one week the second driver is buggy.

Ubuntu Inteprid, 2.6.27-7-generic, Last updated today: 2008-10-25