Weird Sound problems

[CalcProgrammer1]

I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, and then I installed VLC. I use VLC in Ubuntu on my desktop and it's great, but for some reason, when it is on my laptop the sound is messed up.

I open a mp3 file, and it starts playing, but then it will randomly cut out, and there will be no sound, just some popping noises, then the sound will come back. It doesn't do this in any other media player, just VLC, and I selected my audio card in the ALSA audio output. My laptop is a ThinkPad A21p, with a P3 850MHz processor, 512MB RAM, and a Crystal SoundFusion CS46xx sound chip.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Seems to be working now, I had been reading off of a FAT-32 partition with no "options" (from fstab) but I now just mount it by clicking on it (7.04 allows this, but the previous Edgy that I had on it did not) and it works fine.