2009-12-04, 22:59
XBMC Live 9.11 Beta1
(Ubuntu Karmic 9.10)
NForce 4 mobo / s939 CPU
HD 4350 ATI (Catalyst 9.11 drivers)
I recently have had issues with my sound being outputted correctly through XBMC using Alsa. And also huge underscan problems with the ATI driver.
I recently posted some of my woes here with using a ATI card in ubuntu/XBMC:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=450...stcount=92
HDMI Audio
I updated ALSA to the latest version using this script located on the ubuntu forums here.
I first tried installing my own version of XBMCbuntu following this guide here. After I installed I changed my sound output to Analog and HDMI output device. That worked randomly- sometimes it would work but sometimes it would not. Sometimes it would work for a little bit then later it would stop working. I had to restart (sometimes multiple times) to get it working.
I also tried Digital and HDMI / HDMI and default / default. And both options had the same intermittent issues- sometimes working sometimes not.
I then followed the recommendations of this post here and did not get any different results. My device numbers matched.
Underscan Problems
I corrected my issues with my own install of Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 by making a script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.rc that would issue the following commands:
This worked until I installed the new XBMC Live beta 1 with the new Catalyst 9.11 drivers- I had 9.9 before. tmds1 was the display I was using. Now when I run these commands it says the display does not exist.
Does anyone know a way to just turn off underscan completely using aticonfig or whatever?
(Ubuntu Karmic 9.10)
NForce 4 mobo / s939 CPU
HD 4350 ATI (Catalyst 9.11 drivers)
I recently have had issues with my sound being outputted correctly through XBMC using Alsa. And also huge underscan problems with the ATI driver.
I recently posted some of my woes here with using a ATI card in ubuntu/XBMC:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=450...stcount=92
HDMI Audio
I updated ALSA to the latest version using this script located on the ubuntu forums here.
I first tried installing my own version of XBMCbuntu following this guide here. After I installed I changed my sound output to Analog and HDMI output device. That worked randomly- sometimes it would work but sometimes it would not. Sometimes it would work for a little bit then later it would stop working. I had to restart (sometimes multiple times) to get it working.
I also tried Digital and HDMI / HDMI and default / default. And both options had the same intermittent issues- sometimes working sometimes not.
I then followed the recommendations of this post here and did not get any different results. My device numbers matched.
Underscan Problems
I corrected my issues with my own install of Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 by making a script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.rc that would issue the following commands:
Code:
aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds1,sizeY:705
aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds1,positionY:14
aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds1,positionX:0
aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds1,sizeX:1250This worked until I installed the new XBMC Live beta 1 with the new Catalyst 9.11 drivers- I had 9.9 before. tmds1 was the display I was using. Now when I run these commands it says the display does not exist.
Does anyone know a way to just turn off underscan completely using aticonfig or whatever?