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marcozd · 2011-04-27, 20:29

Hi All,

I have XBMC installed on a full gnome desktop in Ubuntu 10.10. I have an nVidia GT210 card installed with the most up-to-date driver (followed instructions on xbmc wiki) and use the HDMI for video and audio directly into my TV.

I want to launch from XBMC to check e-mail and view youtube but there is no sound at all from anything I open in firefox. I would also like to install emulators in the future and I have found some posts where people had issues with sound in those programs as well.

I have sound from XBMC for music and movies.

I have installed the latest version of alsa from this post and then I set-up the correct probe mask from here.

I have made no more adjustments to any alsa settings. Do I need to adjust pulse audio settings? What exactly is pulse audio and am I already using it? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

vikjon0 · 2011-04-27, 21:22

If you have a full ubuntu desktop then you use the Ubuntu desktop audio settings to get sound in ff. This is not dependant on xbmc.

marcozd · 2011-04-27, 21:33

True, but I thought maybe someone else had the same problem...

I will try Ubuntu forums I guess.

Thanks

vikjon0 · 2011-04-28, 06:15

It was only that it sounded very basic...but maybe there is a real problem.

I have not done it 10.10 but in 10.04 I had to find the audio mixer and perhaps also select output device. This could also be done per application.

FernetMenta · 2011-04-28, 16:53

when you change from pulse audio to alsa you have to run gstreamer-properties and set to alsa to get system sounds back.

binaryjay · 2011-04-28, 17:36

Had to jump through tons of hoops to get audio working correctly everywhere through HDMI for my GT240. I don't remember all of them, but for XBMC you may need to upgrade alsa (probably 11.04 will have what you need without PPAs) and in the case of my GT240 I had to set the audio output/passthrough to plughw:0,7

marcozd · 2011-04-28, 18:31

Thanks to all for the replies.

I am still trying to figure this out.

How do I know if pulse audio is working? I did not install it explicitly, so I am wondering, is it installed even? And what exactly does it do? I am not using a fancy sound setup - just HDMI to TV - so I don't need 5.1 dolby etc... to be working.

Anyway, I will update as soon as I have tried some new things.