2012-02-19, 10:10
I have been fighting with this for days. I have searched these forums, the Ubuntu forums, generic Linux forums, even the OpenELEC forums and I cant figure out what is going on. I picked up an HP DC5750 SFF desktop rig from Newegg for a song ($155) specifically to turn it into my XBMC HTPC, replacing a rig I custom built from parts I had lying around. Now, the computer has some respectable stats (chk it out, it really is a deal: Newegg DC5750), BUT, it is seriously lacking in the video (Intel chipset and shared memory) and the sound (Intel sound, 2 channel only) departments. Good for business, not much for multimedia. I remedied the video issue with the generous application of an XFX Radeon HD 4350 low profile video card and that works BEAUTIFULLY. Herein comes my problem after my long ramble . I picked up a SiiG Soundwave 5.1 PCI-LP sound card and dropped it in. Under Win7, everything works great so I know the card and my speakers (Logitech Z-530 analog 5.1) are fine. We get into Linux now. I have tried both XBMC Live Dharma 10.1, and my current setup, XBMCbuntu Eden Beta 3. I get menu sound. But ONLY from the front right channel. If I run I get nothing from front left, but everything else checks out. In XBMC, no matter what I change my audio setting to, all I get is sound from the front right channel. If I run a 5.1 video I found on Youtube (not sure how reliable to be honest), center comes from FR, NOTHING from FL, FR comes from FR, RR came from RR, and RL came from FR. I dont know WHAT is going on with this. ALSA detects the card as a Chaintech AV-710, using the ICE1724 driver. The card itself uses the VIA Tremor VT1723 chipset. I spent no less than 5 days reinstalling XBMC, screwing with ALSA and modprobe and lspci (oh my). I finally said screw it, reenabled the on-board sound (which is working perfect of course ) and have been living with 2 channel sound. I WANT MY 5 CHANNELS BACK!! HELP ME PLEASE!! Let me know ANY stuff you need me to post, and I can drop the card back in the computer and grab whatever it is.
Code:
speaker-test -Dsurround51 -c6 -twav