[Temar]

strange i did what u guys did and sound works for movies but not for xbmc gui sounds.

As I do not use GUI sounds I have no idea if they work for me.

However XBMC might send all GUI sounds to the default audio device whereas all movie sounds are send to the device configured in the XBMC audio settings. If this is the case you have to override the default audio device with your asoundrc.

[seanysean]

I got my Zotac GT 430 Zone today and getting audio to work via HDMI on Ubuntu Lucid is actually pretty easy. What you need is the current nvidia driver (I'm using 260.19.12) and a patched snd_hda_intel ALSA driver.

Here are some short instructions of what I did:

<snip>

Just wanted to say thanks very much for this - the missus wants to watch a film in surround on my new amp, and you saved me hours of geeking. Thanks very much

[Euge]

Hi, I'm thinking of purchasing the Zotac GT 430 Zone for my linux box. Has anyone managed to successfully fit it into an Antec Fusion case? If yes, were there any issues?

[eskro]

this card --> Here
wouldn't happen to fit in this case --> Here

right?

[poofyhairguy]

Um, no. This would fit though:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...-_-Product

You wouldn't want a fanless card in that environment.

[eskro]

oh, why so? it might heat?

i thought fanless was the way to go....

like it cools down better...

then if so,

between these 3 cards,,,,

• 

which would you pick??

thanks poofy!!

[poofyhairguy]

That case takes only low profile cards, and I don't know of any fanless GT430 made that is low profile yet.

I mean, I know a couple fanless GT210s that would be fine. Way lower heat profile.

[eskro]

then if so,

between these 3 cards,,,,

• 

which would you pick??

thanks poofy!!

[Beer40oz]

That Pixxo case is really nice... I like the red....

[poofyhairguy]

which would you pick??

thanks poofy!!

The Asus as it has the perfect bracket to fit included.

[eskro]

Form Factor: Low Profile

GPU: GeForce GT 430 (Fermi)

Core Clock: 785MHz

Shader Clock: 1570MHz

Stream Processors: 96

Effective Memory Clock: 2000MHz

Memory Size: 1GB

Memory Interface: 128-bit

Memory Type: DDR3

http://ow.ly/1rZjx1

[poofyhairguy]

Yep, that one looks good too.

[eskro]

Deal!!

[lpallard]

Hey guys!

From thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83286 user Tremar was suggesting to join this thread for problems between ALSA & Nvidia GT430.

I just changed my ATI HD5570 against a Nvidia GT430 and reinstalled/recompiled all my video applications and so far so good (!) except a problem with sound. The video card is not recognized by ALSA and therefore I have no sound (I am connected direct to my LED TV via HDMI).

alsaconf does not detect the Nvidia sound chipset;

cat /proc/asound/cards will give:
Code:

0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xfcef4000 irq 16

and aplay -l will give

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

What would be the procedure to get this running under Slackware?

Thanks a lot!!!

[Hannes The Hun]

there's some real good instructions from temar on page 4

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=641...stcount=31

should be the same process for slackware