A quick guide to glitch-free audio on Fedora 10
The release note advertises glitch-free PulseAudio in Fedora 10. What the note conveniently forgets to mention is that the trick in getting glitch-free audio is to completely remove PulseAudio from the system. When PA is involved, playback stutters like Porky Pig on the North Pole...
This comes as no real surprise as removing PulseAudio was also imperative in the previous Fedora release unless you were completely tonedeaf. It consistently played back audio almost a semitone sharp on two of my machines. Both were using the extremely rare (dare one say "exotic"?) intel i810 audio hardware.
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