I experienced this issue on a fresh 12.04 install on a Lenovo Ideacentre K330 with the Intel i3-2120 3.30GHz CPU.
The issue resolved after running the commands listed in Step 1 at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure#Step. Thanks for the help everyone! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007783 Title: audio skips intermittently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1007783/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs