[dzan]

Hi all,

I had a whole lot of trouble with my htpc ( from old hardware for now ) and getting my sound to work, in the end I figured out my onboard sound was just broke so I disabled it and installed an old Creative Soundcard I found somewhere. Now when I boot in the terminal ( using the 'recovery' option in grub ) and install mp3blaster I can play mp3's! So the sound works and the hardware is fine this time.

When I load up xbmc it doesn't work... I made a Ubuntu Karmic minimal install and used the xci script to install xbmc. I already used the script to reset the sound ( it's an option ) and reinstall the drivers ( the last thing is called X.1 sound or something ).. in the terminal all still works but xbmc just refuses :p.

I hear no menusound and when I load a movie it states "failed to initialise the audio device".
I tried some options in the menu's but nothing seems to work for me.

Here are my logs and some useful? output:
Logs: http://pastebin.com/r8LqNRRb
Output of aplay -l: http://pastebin.com/nQVgV4dt
Output of the hardware listing command ( forgot which one it was ): http://pastebin.com/YUNFcJdq

I tried using alsamixer too but since the sound works in the terminal... that can't be it right?

Greets, hope someone can help.

[dzan]

Update:
When I login as the xbmc user instead of root and use aplay -l no sounddevices are listed! When I logout and login as root again it's there again!
Someone knows what could be causing this? I checked the /etc/group file and its fine...
audio:29:xbmc:root..

PS. Please don't write this off as the usual sound problem, this isn't it!

[Flomaster]

I have read that you might need to add your user name xbmc to the sound profile

give a search on the forums for that and try it

-=Jason=-