[miraclemaker]

Hi guys I upgraded XBMC to the latest nightly mid / end of last week and after rebooting over the weekend I had no audio. I upgraded to the latest nightly today from:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly/ubuntu/ precise/main xbmc all 2:14.0~git20140406.0204-577494a-0precise

and I still have no audio. I'm running on AMD E350, Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. Audio out over HDMI to my receiver. Everything was working perfectly previously.

I don't really know where to start debugging the audio, would really appreciate some assistance!

Many thanks.

[miraclemaker]

Here's my XBMC log:
http://pastebin.com/NRWNDbkp

Here's the output of aplay -l:

Code:

root@htpc:/home/xbmc# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Here's the output of aplay -L:

Code:

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=1
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions

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The output of alsamixer -c0:


The output of alsamixer -c1:

[fritsch]

Kernel is much too old. With your radeon card, you need to boot with radeon.audio=1

Upgrade to a 3.13 kernel and all will be fine.

Btw. in order to use any hw acceleration I suggest you give xbmcbuntu v13 a try.

[miraclemaker]

Many thanks for the reply fritsch! I'll give that a go and report back.

[miraclemaker]

Fantastic thanks fritsch I performed the kernel upgrade and audio came straight back. Many thanks for your help!

[fritsch]

You need more bits ... to get hw acceleration - so keep in mind, if everything stutters.

[miraclemaker]

Here's a pic of my video acceleration settings page. It mentions both VDPAU and VAAPI, would these not be working properly?



Thanks!

[fritsch]

No, you need the relevant userspace, especially Mesa 10.0.4+ and a supported Ubuntu version. Give xbmcbuntu v13 a try, please.

[miraclemaker]

Ok thanks for the clarification. I'll switch to xbmcbuntu v13 as soon as I can find somewhere to back up my media :-)