I have an old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card using the CS46xx driver and was having exactly these symptoms after upgrading to Karmic (audio with pulseaudio was working perfectly in Jaunty). Switching output to the onboard audio (Realtek ALC883) made the problem completely go away.
-- pulseaudio crackle/distortion with cs46xx on latest update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428619 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
