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I just started keeping my zotac zbox powered on and noticed the same repeating pattern everyday: sound disappears the following morning. A reboot re -initializes the sound and all is all right until the following day. Have others noticed similar?
Logs don't show anything abnormal. Using 10.0 and sound through the hdmi device.
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I have a similar problem, but I think mine is related to the Surround Amp I am using. Basically if I switch my XBMC on without already having switched to the correct input on my Surround Sound System, I will get no sound. I can then happily swap inputs after xbmc has booted, but if I switch my amp off I will have to reboot my xbmc box again (and make sure I have switched to the correct input on my amp)
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Interesting. Not going through an amp here - both hdmi audio and analog audio out..but I've noticed this issue whilst going analog out only, so not related to the dual audio out config.
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Will disable DPMS in xorg.conf and see if that has an impact.
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I have the same issue, sometimes the sound dies on its own after days of music playback, sometimes it happens when I switch from 5.1 movie to a stereo music track. Normally just restarting XBMC fixes the problem.
I have a zotac mainboard and am running xbmc under ubuntu desktop, sound is connected through spdif.
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2011-04-05, 19:15
(This post was last modified: 2011-04-05, 19:18 by X3lectric.)
DPMS is a screen power saving only, it even requires your tv to support it. thus XORG has 0 to do with sound. I would imagine polcikit and respective setting would though.
SInce I pay the elctricity bill arund here I switch off all no essentials overnight right at the plug.
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this is the bug that cause that
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/7338
if you notice a fix has been posted by a user but it wont make it into xbmc cuase of lack of interst by developers, perhaps you wanna bribe someone?
