[G12345567]

I am currently running XBMCbuntu 11.10 and problem is after listening to music for a while without touching or using XBMC, the MSE usb remote sensor stops responding to the remote control. Assume its power or sleep mode. When this happens the keyboard is the only option I have to control XBMC. Music is still playing and XBMC works fine, yet remote sensor is frozen and will not accept any commands from remote. To fix this I have to always reboot the HTPC to get the USB remote sensor and remote control support working again.

Also on bootup of HTPC. Sometimes the sound does work at all. EG error initializing sound hardware or no sound at all can be heard. Again rebooting HTPC restores sound.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

[Plaguester]

The sound issue may be an HDMI handshake issue. Have you tried a different cable?

[G12345567]

Sound hardware is as follows. I am using PCIe card with toslink audio. Not audio over HDMI.

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 0: ICE1724 [ICE1724]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 1: ICE1724 IEC958 [ICE1724 IEC958]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

HTPC:~$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=ICE1724
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=1
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724 IEC958
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=1
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724 IEC958
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=1
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724 IEC958
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=0
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=ICE1724,DEV=1
ICEnsemble ICE1724, ICE1724 IEC958
Hardware device with all software conversions

Sound card and audio passthrough are both set to Optical, 5.1 and Custom plughw:1,1

[G12345567]

Anybody got any ideas on this one? This is getting really annoying, randomly not having any sound on startup.

I don't change any settings at all. It works fine, shutdown and come back later on or next day, turn on and XBMC just fails to initialise sound hardware on startup when I try to play any media. I have to keep rebooting computer and trying media before I am able to get sound working again. 6 reboots has been the max attempts so far before sound magicaly starts working again.