Video and audio Still skipping like a Broken Record

[T6]

kde4 has nothing to do with the audio problem

your personal opinion about a specific desktop doesn't help to fix this problem

in bios you can't disable wireless or webcam(except very specific laptops), maybe power management but since the problem is the second sound card/bridge on the video card i don't see how this can help

[corazon]

With exotic hardware from competing (not co-operating) manufacturers, presenting an issue that is tough to solve,
its good luck to eliminate as many variables as possible.

Sorry if I insulted  your girlfriend, I didn't realize kde was dating

[GOTHBITES]

With exotic hardware from competing (not co-operating) manufacturers, presenting an issue that is tough to solve,
its good luck to eliminate as many variables as possible.

Thanks for that advice which is why this is so frustrating if i had only learned how to image or remake a live cd all I would have to do is just reset and still keep all the things which make a nice running system. 

Now the errors i have gotten before about the artsd

artsd
can't register Arts::MidiManager
There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...

Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
       If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:

       /home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack/Arts_SoundServerV2
       /home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack/Arts_SoundServer
       /home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack/Arts_SimpleSoundServer
       /home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack/Arts_PlayObjectFactory
       /home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack/Arts_AudioManager

and in the earlier error this was mentioned

/home/zack/.kde/socket-localhost" points to "/tmp/ksocket-zack" instead of "/home/zack/tmp/ksocket-zack

it seems to me that whats happening is that when ever i use a sound application and turn it off it still keeps going or not shutting down properly. which leads to errors hey im just shooting into the dark here   

also i must mention to solve my earlier issue i have installed  Volume control which seems to supersede the default volume but i did get my sound back
here is my specs again
AMD 64 3700+   MSI K8 motherboard,  2Gb DDR pc3200 Ram,  H.I.S. Radeon 4670 1Gb DDR3,  DualBooting XP sp2/PClinux 2009.2 KDE 3.5, creative sound card C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738, Hard Drive 320Gb

I hope i didn't leave out any details this time

[T6]

"With exotic hardware from competing (not co-operating) manufacturers, presenting an issue that is tough to solve"

exotic a hdmi port with audio on a video card?   you need to go dating more recent hardware     

do you have one or two sound cards?  just the onboard one?

[GOTHBITES]

exotic a hdmi port with audio on a video card?   you need to go dating more recent hardware     

do you have one or two sound cards?  just the onboard one?

there is on board sound but i disabled it for awhile now but the video card does have a vga, dvi, hdmi slot .  and the software does list the hdmi as a sound card. but this "creative sound card is the name of my card. C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 Is how the PCC center list the hardware" involved with the sound  and this is the Driver involved is ‎snd_cmipci. 

[corazon]

Hi, if you turn off the sound system in kde Control Center, and reboot,
is the sound different?

A quick google shows many problems where hdmi exists, and various solutions

From a Suse sound problem discussion:

A possible fix to choppy / skipping sound

The PulseAudio sound server was written to use timer-based audio scheduling instead of the
traditional interrupt-driven approach. This is the approach that is taken by other systems
such as Apples CoreAudio and the Windows Vista audio subsystem and has a number of advantages,
not the least in reduced power consumption, minimization of drop-outs and flexible adjustment
of the latency to the needs of the application. However, timer-based scheduling may expose
issues in some Alsa drivers. To turn timer-based scheduling off, replace the line
 
 load-module module-hal-detect

in /etc/pulse/default.pa by
 
 load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0

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someone had power management impeding audio:

After I went into my CCC and the Overdrive section, I noticed the GPU/RAM was idling at about
35% regular clock speed (to power save). I unlocked overdrive and left it at the default setting.
The GPU/RAM now remain at full speed when idle and I haven't had any audio static for the last couple days.

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someone with an ATI Catalyst solved a sound problem:

Installed ATI Catalyst 9.8, uninstalled OSS, installed alsa again = Crystal clear sound in my
tv HURRAH! It was a Catalyst bug after all, thanks for the bug guys.
      
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These may not solve your issue directly, but hopefully inspire your efforts!
I reinstall when things don't add up. Minime 2009 was great, just a nice shell
to add only what I wanted. And I kept all the rpms in the cache,
over the years, I've filled up a dvd with rpms to use in a pinch, and there's
nothing like new linux rollouts to keep the pinch supply well stocked. 

Cheers

[GOTHBITES]

Hi, if you turn off the sound system in kde Control Center, and reboot,
is the sound different?
Have not tried this part yet!

A quick google shows many problems where hdmi exists, and various solutions

From a Suse sound problem discussion:

A possible fix to choppy / skipping sound

The PulseAudio sound server was written to use timer-based audio scheduling instead of the
traditional interrupt-driven approach. This is the approach that is taken by other systems
such as Apples CoreAudio and the Windows Vista audio subsystem and has a number of advantages,
not the least in reduced power consumption, minimization of drop-outs and flexible adjustment
of the latency to the needs of the application. However, timer-based scheduling may expose
issues in some Alsa drivers. To turn timer-based scheduling off, replace the line
 
 load-module module-hal-detect

in /etc/pulse/default.pa by
 
 load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0

This is the first Thing that made sense so far will update on this

someone had power management impeding audio:

After I went into my CCC and the Overdrive section, I noticed the GPU/RAM was idling at about
35% regular clock speed (to power save). I unlocked overdrive and left it at the default setting.
The GPU/RAM now remain at full speed when idle and I haven't had any audio static for the last couple days.

? overdrive in KDE 3.5
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someone with an ATI Catalyst solved a sound problem:

Installed ATI Catalyst 9.8, uninstalled OSS, installed alsa again = Crystal clear sound in my
tv HURRAH! It was a Catalyst bug after all, thanks for the bug guys.

Now this one i have done by installing the latest version 10.2
though uninstalling the OSS was a nice trick thanks will try this one next      
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These may not solve your issue directly, but hopefully inspire your efforts!
I reinstall when things don't add up. Minime 2009 was great, just a nice shell
to add only what I wanted. And I kept all the rpms in the cache,
over the years, I've filled up a dvd with rpms to use in a pinch, and there's
nothing like new linux rollouts to keep the pinch supply well stocked. 

Cheers

Thanks for the all the info and the Help Corazon so far the commenting on the Pulse audio seems like an good idea

will update as soon as possible

[GOTHBITES]

Ok the first Try with the commenting line in pulse audio didn't take as i had to reboot but only difference now the beats skips faster lol Im going uninstall oss and then reinstall alsa

wish me luck