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Daniel Malmgren

2011-11-20, 12:18
Hi all.
I upgraded my htpc from Natty to Oneiric yesterday. Since the upgrade I can't seem to get any sound from it. I'm using sound over hdmi on an aOpen MP45BDR (according to lspci it's "Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller"). Tried fiddling around with settings in xbmc, tried searching in logs and googling for solutions with no success.

Before the upgrade I had no pulseaudio installed. I had errors in xbmc.log about not finding pulseaudio so I tried installing it, made no difference. Also checked all alsamixer settings. Even speaker-test is completely silent.

Some commands that might say more to anyone than it does to me:
Code:
xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/temp$ lsmod|grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     31426  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   254125  1
snd_hda_intel          28358  2
snd_hda_codec          91754  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13276  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                80468  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi           13132  0
snd_rawmidi            25241  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51567  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              28932  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14172  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    55902  14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              12600  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14108  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/temp$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/temp$ aplay -L
default
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
pulse
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=3
    HDA Intel, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=3
    HDA Intel, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=3
    HDA Intel, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
    HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=3
    HDA Intel, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions

Anyone cunning please help me! My wife's going mad...

/Daniel

Daniel Malmgren

2011-11-20, 17:15
Darn. Reinstalled entire system (for other reasons) and I still got no sound. WTF! Also tried plugging headphones directly to analogue 3.5mm port and tried getting sound to them. Nothing. Really banging my head against the wall now...

/Daniel

edit: Just in case this tells anyone anything... http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=3a08a7...eedfcfb144

whoelse

2011-11-20, 19:33
I can't really interpret the ALSA information, so I don't know if it helps but just make sure that the necessary devices are unmuted in the alsamixer (I just unmute more or less everything)
PHP Code:
sudo alsamixer 
and don't forget to save it
PHP Code:
sudo alsactl store 0 
At least these steps I have to make every time I update my Ubuntu and maybe you have just forgotten one step. Hope it helps.

Daniel Malmgren

2011-11-20, 20:15
Ok. Everyone please silently ignore my mumbling. Seems I somehow accidentally touched a button on my receiver, changing it from the normal mode to some bypass mode. Entire day of searching faults in the htpc when it was functioning perfectly fine all the time. Darn.Eek

/Daniel
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