I can confirm this crackling behaviour in my Macbook 3rd generation with Gutsy as well. I have come to a possible solution, but it has not been widely tested yet. But it's been working very well for me and a few others.
Read about it here: (Read Post #9) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611345 -- left-channel distortion on intel-hda https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
