The onboard Realtek ALC888S is giving out choppy audio Oddly, speech comes out fine but is at a low volume
Alsamixer detects it as being Realtek ALC1200
instead of Realtek ALC888S
and lspci:
amith@amith-desktop:~$ lspci|grep Audio
00:09.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
The motherboard is a HP NAPA GL8 G31
with a Core 2 Duo