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"Serious Linux courses"? All the crap you need is on your system already; it's just a matter of having enough time to read all the man pages-READMEs and so forth. This may not be possible for you, though. You can always grab the latest paper edition of Running Linux if you're looking for course materials, though.

Good question. Context?

Er? hdparm operates on disks, not parbreastions; usually you write "hdparmdev-hda".

Right. You said that you heard skipping-stuttering sometimes when playing mp3s, right? If that's the case, you might want to set unmaskirq to 1 and IOsupport to 1. "hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1dev-hdabcd" as root should do the trick. Unmasking interrupts on your IDE chains will actually make the disks perform a little more slowly, but disk activity won't affect userspace programs as much.

The ALSA modules may be having problems with this card, setting the-motherboard crap sound chips. What's the output of "uname -a"?

If you're using ALSA, the appropriate output plugin for xmms is the one that references ALSA. aRts is KDE's sound server, and you should use that if you want to. The "Intel ICH5" devices are probably not the correct devices to use.

Check your mixer levels in kmix or whatever mixer program you use. If you're using ALSA, there should be a tab called "settings" or "special" or something right after the output and input tabs. Make sure these are set properly, or fiddle with them and see if the output quality improves. HTH,

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