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DaVu

2012-12-29, 13:24
Hi there...

Finally I bboughtt a Geforce GT520

This one: GT 520

I use XBMCbuntu RC2 for NVidia. The HTPC is plugged to a Rotel Pre Amp RSP 1570 via HDMI

At first I didn't get any picture while my XBMC is plugged to the amp. So I didn't get any EDID informations. I removed the graphic card from the board (Zotac ION F-Series), use the onboard HDMI output and I got a screen over the amp. Startet NVidia X-Server Settings, acquire the EDID information that I now get, saved them to a specified folder and configured my xorg.conf like this:


Code:
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/home/david/Test/rotel.bin"
    Option         "ConnectedMonitor"   "DFP-1"
EndSection

After that, I got a screen with my GT520 plugged to the amp. So far so good Wink

I don't have any sounds! As I used my on-Board HDMI without my GT520 I got sound out-of-the-box.

I have tried everything I know but didn't get it solved, so I need your help please.

I unmuted all channels in "alsamixer"

Screenshot alsamixer:

http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/bi...t-0252.png

My "aplay -l:

Code:
david@david-xbmc:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
david@david-xbmc:~$

My aplay -L:

Code:
david@david-xbmc:~$ aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
both
multi
hdmi_formatted
hdmi_complete
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
hdmi:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=7
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=7
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=7
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=7
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    Hardware device with all software conversions
david@david-xbmc:~$

LSPCI if needed:

Code:
david@david-xbmc:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 SATA Controller (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 520] (rev a1)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
david@david-xbmc:~$

And here is the screenshot of my sound settings:

http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/bi...u-7f1d.png


I also tried to do a speakter test like this:

Code:
speaker-test -Dplughw:1,7

I tried it with "1,7", "1,3" and with "0,3" and i didn't get any sound

So please spend some time to help me to get this to work

Thanks in advance

David

DaVu

2012-12-29, 14:14
Maybe it's important....I use the 304.43 driver version

un1versal

2012-12-29, 14:22
I see pulseaudio is installed.... why?

You should install alsa-utils libasound2 and purge pulseaudio.

uNI

DaVu

2012-12-29, 14:28
I saw this too and i tried:

"apt-get purge pulseaudio"

The result ist:

Code:
david@david-xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package 'pulseaudio' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
david@david-xbmc:~$

I also made a debug log while playing a movie, if this will help:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=24665

Thanks for helping
I also installed your packages, following this thread:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1278648
also

Code:
apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio

gives me the same result

Code:
david@david-xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package 'pulseaudio' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
david@david-xbmc:~$

un1versal

2012-12-29, 14:55
So you tried

Code:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall alsa-utils libasound2

What was result.

The pulseaudio comment is because on your first post the output of aplay -L it says pulseaudio sound server, So I guess what Im sayidng is, this is not needed and its somehow being dragged in here.

XBMC only needs alsa and aside some misconfiguration going on (I bet) that should be it.

uNi

DaVu

2012-12-29, 17:06
I can't remember..so I did it once again:

The result:

Code:
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,106 kB/1,536 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main alsa-utils i386 1.0.25-3ubuntu2 [1,106 kB]
Fetched 1,106 kB in 1s (968 kB/s)      
(Reading database ... 117052 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libasound2:i386 1.0.25-3ubuntu3 (using .../libasound2_1.0.25-3ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libasound2:i386 ...
Preparing to replace alsa-utils 1.0.25-3ubuntu2 (using .../alsa-utils_1.0.25-3ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement alsa-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up libasound2:i386 (1.0.25-3ubuntu3) ...
Setting up alsa-utils (1.0.25-3ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Cheers Wink

negge

2012-12-29, 17:12
I have the exact same card and everything is working for me. Here is my configuration, I hope it helps:

xorg.conf: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=24687
aplay -l, aplay -L and asound.conf: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=24689

I do not use Pulseaudio.

DaVu

2012-12-29, 17:20
I just didn't want to use pulseaudio as well Big Grin

Got some troubleshooting with that in the past and only solution was to get this removed.

But I'm not able to get rid of it Wink

un1versal

2012-12-29, 17:22
I have nothing to add for the OP, this is a message for @negge.

@negge

this is offtopic but needs to be said.

thats good, just a FYI when you upgrade your video drivers that xorg.conf and especially the modes will no longer work. Wink (as I noticed that xorg was/is for NV 280.version

Code:
Option         "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
Option         "metamodes" "1920x1080_60 +0+0; 1920x1080_60i +0+0; 1920x1080_50 +0+0; 1920x1080_50i +0+0; 1920x1080_24 +0+0"

scaling native will no longer works in 30x.x drivers (deprecated you will only get a message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to that effect) and the metamodes will probably need replacing with modelines then again probably not but at least you know. My sig has more info on xorg.conf if you ever get tied in.

uNi

DaVu

2012-12-29, 17:23
The funny thing is, if I remove the GT520 I got sound immediatly. Directly out-of-the-box. Even if pulseaudio is intalled (or not, or what ever...because it is shown, but can't remove it)

un1versal

2012-12-29, 17:28
Yea you probably need to install nvidia drivers when you install the card as the drivers for onboard will probably not be same.

or even simpler

When you plug-in the Nvidia card you will need to change the audio output device in alsamixer with (F6) from current onboard to the nvidia card

Assuming that nvidia drivers are installed and are compatible with your 520.

uNi

DaVu

2012-12-29, 17:32
Hugh...wait....

I remeber one thing, that could be related to my issue...

Is it possible that there have benn made some installation mistakes? On this HDD I had a previous installation of XBMCbuntu from his thread:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...=david1977

As I installed the RC2 I chose "delete Ubuntu 12.04 and install 12.10" (or like that)

Maybe some things are not clean deleted?

un1versal

2012-12-29, 17:34
No idea about that, only if you chose to format the drives otherwise it wont.

uNi

DaVu

2012-12-29, 17:35
I installed the Nvidia-drivers. So Iḿ now an 304.43

Just looked after a driver once again and found another one...310.19

shall i try this one?

http://www.nvidia.de/object/linux-displa...er-de.html

un1versal

2012-12-29, 17:40
Try to fix it with 304.43

Also I would recommend, including Nvidia recommends using distribution ppa packaged drivers instead of the binary drivers.

A good ppa to use is x-swat ppa. just a FYI.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...d_variants

uNi
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