2012-11-04, 00:52
I'm trying to solve an audio output problem with XBMCbuntu. (Why should I be any different from the rest of the vast numbers of people posting here for whom it has also proved challenging to get HDMI audio output working right?)
So I started reading just a few of the enormous multitudes of HDMI/audio related threads here, and I found one good suggestion... hit Cntl-Alt-F2 so that you can at least get to a shell prompt, and then maybe you'll have a prayer in hell of figuring out WTF is actually going on, and which audio devices exist and which ones you should be telling XBMC to use.
Sounds great... in theory.
In practice, when I did this with XBMCbuntu running (live) on my shiny new/used HP 8530p laptop, all that I get is a big blank black screen with nothing on it except for a rather oversized cursor blinking stupidly and imploringly at me as if I'm supposed to know what to do next.
Unfortunately, I don't. Does anybody else?
Is this a "feature"?
So I started reading just a few of the enormous multitudes of HDMI/audio related threads here, and I found one good suggestion... hit Cntl-Alt-F2 so that you can at least get to a shell prompt, and then maybe you'll have a prayer in hell of figuring out WTF is actually going on, and which audio devices exist and which ones you should be telling XBMC to use.
Sounds great... in theory.
In practice, when I did this with XBMCbuntu running (live) on my shiny new/used HP 8530p laptop, all that I get is a big blank black screen with nothing on it except for a rather oversized cursor blinking stupidly and imploringly at me as if I'm supposed to know what to do next.
Unfortunately, I don't. Does anybody else?
Is this a "feature"?