2012-03-25, 05:09
EDIT: I changed the thread subject to more accurately reflect what I think the problem might be.
Please note that despite my user name I am no longer running XBMC Live — just regular XBMC under Ubuntu 10.10.
I turned on my TV tonight and change the input to my Acer Aspire Revo R3610 and went into XBMC only to discover it had been upgraded to Eden. I'm not sure how this happened because I am fairly sure I didn't okay an upgrade, unless maybe it came in with a bunch of Linux kernal upgrades and I missed it somehow (which is hard to believe since it's been several days since I've had one of those).
First thing I noticed, every time I tried to play something, NO SOUND. It popped up an error about "could not initialize audio device" or something to that effect. Went I went to the audio settings they were set to:
Audio Output: Optical/Coax (which was right)
Audio Output Device: Custom
Passthrough Output Device: Custom
After MUCH fiddling (and not a little panic) the only way I could get it to work was to change the settings to:
Audio Output: Analog
Audio Output Device: Defaults(PulseAudio)
What is weird is that the sound IS going to the receiver via an optical cable, even though it says analog. But I'm not getting 5.1 sound!
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer Aspire Revo. Output of aplay -l is:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
If I bring up alsamixer it shows nothing is muted.
Everything just worked under the previous version of XBMC and I can't understand why the upgrade killed my sound, but more to the point, I can't believe that setting audio output to analog is the right thing to do. If anyone else has a Revo and has installed Eden (willingly or accidentally) could you please tell me what you are using for Audio Output, Audio Output Device, and Passthrough Output Device (especially if you know you are getting true 5.1 sound)? I would very much appreciate it! I'm NOT a Linux geek so if you need me to look at something else please tell me where to find it (unless it's obvious).
Please note that despite my user name I am no longer running XBMC Live — just regular XBMC under Ubuntu 10.10.
I turned on my TV tonight and change the input to my Acer Aspire Revo R3610 and went into XBMC only to discover it had been upgraded to Eden. I'm not sure how this happened because I am fairly sure I didn't okay an upgrade, unless maybe it came in with a bunch of Linux kernal upgrades and I missed it somehow (which is hard to believe since it's been several days since I've had one of those).
First thing I noticed, every time I tried to play something, NO SOUND. It popped up an error about "could not initialize audio device" or something to that effect. Went I went to the audio settings they were set to:
Audio Output: Optical/Coax (which was right)
Audio Output Device: Custom
Passthrough Output Device: Custom
After MUCH fiddling (and not a little panic) the only way I could get it to work was to change the settings to:
Audio Output: Analog
Audio Output Device: Defaults(PulseAudio)
What is weird is that the sound IS going to the receiver via an optical cable, even though it says analog. But I'm not getting 5.1 sound!
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer Aspire Revo. Output of aplay -l is:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
If I bring up alsamixer it shows nothing is muted.
Everything just worked under the previous version of XBMC and I can't understand why the upgrade killed my sound, but more to the point, I can't believe that setting audio output to analog is the right thing to do. If anyone else has a Revo and has installed Eden (willingly or accidentally) could you please tell me what you are using for Audio Output, Audio Output Device, and Passthrough Output Device (especially if you know you are getting true 5.1 sound)? I would very much appreciate it! I'm NOT a Linux geek so if you need me to look at something else please tell me where to find it (unless it's obvious).