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Hi guys,

I'm trying to set up my sound over spdif. I have unmuted everything like described in this thread: Click
When I follow post 4 in this thread, I get only sound in movies and no menu sound. Sound in XMBCbunt fails too.

I had it working once with this settings: Audio & passthrough output where set to Xonar DG - iec958 - 0(Alsa) but when reboot menu sound was gone again.
I have set no asound.conf nor a .asoundrc. Do I have to set this? Found this only in threads on setting up HDMI, what do I have to put in for optical connection?

aplay -l:

Code:
xbmc@HTPC:~$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]

  Subdevices: 0/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: DG [Xonar DG], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: DG [Xonar DG], device 1: Digital [Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

aplay -L

Code:
xbmc@HTPC:~$ aplay -L

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    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

default:CARD=PCH

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Direct sample mixing device

dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=1

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital

    Direct sample mixing device

dsnoop:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Direct sample snooping device

dsnoop:CARD=PCH,DEV=1

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital

    Direct sample snooping device

hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=1

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Analog

    Hardware device with all software conversions

plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=1

    HDA Intel PCH, ALC889 Digital

    Hardware device with all software conversions

default:CARD=DG

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

dmix:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Direct sample mixing device

dmix:CARD=DG,DEV=1

    Xonar DG, Digital

    Direct sample mixing device

dsnoop:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Direct sample snooping device

dsnoop:CARD=DG,DEV=1

    Xonar DG, Digital

    Direct sample snooping device

hw:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

hw:CARD=DG,DEV=1

    Xonar DG, Digital

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

plughw:CARD=DG,DEV=0

    Xonar DG, Multichannel

    Hardware device with all software conversions

plughw:CARD=DG,DEV=1

    Xonar DG, Digital

    Hardware device with all software conversions

hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    HDMI Audio Output

dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct sample mixing device

dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct sample snooping device

hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Hardware device with all software conversions

Thank you very much for any help. Blush

Regards, fritz222

Make a check: edit xbmc-standalone script in usr/bin and add "sleep 8" at the beginning of it. I found that on my ion system it resolved the same problem. It looks like xbmcbuntu needs some time to load something for proper working of xbmc-standalone startup script. Eight seconds of additional booting time works for me like a charm Smile

i tested it on two different systems with optical output.

Ok thank you for that advise, I'll give it a try this evening. Smile

I found out what the problem is but I'm not able to solve it.

Alsa changes the order of sound playback devices:

Once my soundcard has the number 0 and after rebooting it has the number 1 or 2. So the order of my 3 playback able cards change randomly after reboot. Is there a possiblity to avoid that?

EDIT:

Code:
xbmc@HTPC:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards

0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH

                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xfbff4000 irq 43

1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

                      HDA NVidia at 0xfaffc000 irq 17

2 [DG             ]: CMI8786 - Xonar DG

                      C-Media Oxygen HD Audio at 0xde00, irq 18

I tried to add the all of the following options at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-cmi8786 index=0
options snd-xonar_dg index=0
options snd-dg index=0

And I tried all of them with CAPS too.

I appreciate any help.
Regards, fritz222

Any ideas?

You might need something like

alias snd-card-0 snd-cmi8786
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.p...-usb-audio

That didin't worked. It's not a usbsoundcard.

But I was able to set the order according to this guide:
That didin't worked. But I was able to set the order according to this guide: Link

But I'm still not able to set the menusounds. Moviesound works on nearly every passthrough setting.

And I have a few error logs in my user directory. These error logs contain:

Code:
GNU nano 2.2.6      File: xbmc_crashlog-20120515_214004.log

############## XBMC CRASH LOG ###############

################ SYSTEM INFO ################

Date: Tue May 15 21:40:04 CEST 2012

XBMC Options:

Arch: i686

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 12:49:42 UTC 2012

Release:

Would be great if someone could help me.

This is how I have my system setup. Works for me on all the distributions I've tried, Debian, (L)Ubuntu, Linuxmint LMDE and currently Crunchbang.
I have a TV (HDMI) and monitor (HDMI) connected to this PC via an NVidia card. PC > Receiver > TV. Sound disabled in the BIOS.
Could you try it, you can remove it if it doesn't work.

Install pulseaudio also pavucontrol to control sound settings if needed.

Add / modify /etc/asound.conf

Code:
pcm.pulse {

    type pulse

}

ctl.pulse {

    type pulse

}

pcm.!default {

    type pulse

}

ctl.!default {

    type pulse

}

And insert into /etc/pulse/default.pa

Code:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,7

Make sure you change 'device=hw:0,7' to your device

In XBMC I have
Audio Output Device set to default and Passthrough Output Device set to 'Custom' and 'hw:0,7' - use your settings from above.

Good luck
Rick

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