2009-12-30, 08:56
EDIT: This post provides the most current and detailed information about my situation. If this is the first time reading this post, please start from there. I have learned several things along the way so I figured I'd save you some time. Or skip to the bottom.
The setup:
Acer Aspire Revo AR 1600 w/ NVIDIA ION LE hooked up via HDMI to TV.
The problem:
I spent all installing XBMCLive to the hard drive and configuring ubuntu to my liking. I had my Revo hooked up to a spare monitor while doing via VGA. Sound worked fine over headphone jack. After I had gotten everything in order, I went to hook it up to my TV via HDMI. Video worked fine but no sound. So I googled...and googled...and googled. Found several 'solutions' but none worked for me. I tried different .asoundrc alsa-base.conf but no luck. I checked alsamixer to make sure everything was unmuted. I even tried manually inputting the device ( plughw:0,3 ) in the custom field in xbmc. Still nothing.
A ray of light:
After several hours of troubleshooting and trying different things, I was at my wit's end and ready to give up. I had a crazy idea to see if it worked in the LIVE version. So I popped in my USB drive, booted to LIVE (note: this is the LIVE version booted off a usb drive, identical to the LIVE CD, it was not put there by the installer), changed audio output to digital and low and behold it worked! So at the point I am really excited because at least I know it is possible.
What I want to do:
I want clear out any and all audio configuration in my installed version and copy the audio configuration from the live version to my installed version. That's my theory to getting all of this to work.
What I've done:
I deleted my instances of /etc/modprob.d/alsa-base.conf and asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc. I've then copied the LIVE alsa-base.conf to my installed version. Still no luck though.
I know I could just start from scratch. But I am REALLY trying to avoid that because this would be the fourth time to rebuild. I did a lot of configuring with other programs running in the background (rtorrent, lighttpd, irssi, dropbox, etc)
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks!
The setup:
Acer Aspire Revo AR 1600 w/ NVIDIA ION LE hooked up via HDMI to TV.
The problem:
I spent all installing XBMCLive to the hard drive and configuring ubuntu to my liking. I had my Revo hooked up to a spare monitor while doing via VGA. Sound worked fine over headphone jack. After I had gotten everything in order, I went to hook it up to my TV via HDMI. Video worked fine but no sound. So I googled...and googled...and googled. Found several 'solutions' but none worked for me. I tried different .asoundrc alsa-base.conf but no luck. I checked alsamixer to make sure everything was unmuted. I even tried manually inputting the device ( plughw:0,3 ) in the custom field in xbmc. Still nothing.
A ray of light:
After several hours of troubleshooting and trying different things, I was at my wit's end and ready to give up. I had a crazy idea to see if it worked in the LIVE version. So I popped in my USB drive, booted to LIVE (note: this is the LIVE version booted off a usb drive, identical to the LIVE CD, it was not put there by the installer), changed audio output to digital and low and behold it worked! So at the point I am really excited because at least I know it is possible.
What I want to do:
I want clear out any and all audio configuration in my installed version and copy the audio configuration from the live version to my installed version. That's my theory to getting all of this to work.
What I've done:
I deleted my instances of /etc/modprob.d/alsa-base.conf and asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc. I've then copied the LIVE alsa-base.conf to my installed version. Still no luck though.
I know I could just start from scratch. But I am REALLY trying to avoid that because this would be the fourth time to rebuild. I did a lot of configuring with other programs running in the background (rtorrent, lighttpd, irssi, dropbox, etc)
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks!