Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Pulseaudio Issues
I recently got problems with any music players on my netbook, in that case a Lenovo S12 ION.
The problem is that pulseaudio eating so much cpu power that playback stutters almost every 3-5 secs.
So I removed pulseaudio and voila, playback with alsa is smooth and with a special ppa I still can use my multimedia keys for volume-settings.
Remove pulseaudio package (it will remove some metapackages too, don’t wonder)
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio -y && sudo apt-get autoremove -y
Now add PPA and upgrade
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dtl131/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Now reboot and enjoy stutterfree music playback you your (net||note)&&book