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I made an image of a (working) installation on a different system. I used it before on a system that is exactly the same and that worked fine.
I'm using the other system on the same TV and I don't have either of the settings you mentioned enabled there.
I didn't notice that pulseaudio was installed. I removed it now, followed the guide and enabled the settings. It seemed to work. Then I disabled the settings and it also worked fine... On a second try the problems came back though.
Maybe the problems are caused by the latest update of xbmc. The Live image I created seemed to work fine so I didn't understand why the installed version wasn't working. I think I immediatly upgraded xbmc to the latest version while the Live image used an older one.
I'll let you know if I can find a definitive solution.
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2012-08-06, 08:52
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-06, 08:53 by wsnipex.)
@snippo: I suggest installing according to the howto or using the lastest xbmcbuntu pre
@freakwenc: you most probably used the normal catalyst 12.6, but for your card you need the legacy!
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2012-08-06, 11:31
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-06, 11:33 by cirkator.)
@ wsnipex: would you recommend to always purge pulseaudio when using a full install of eg. Ubuntu?
Anything else that should be removed or added when using a full install?
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@Snippo:
Yeah, this is great. Not for you, but in general. We were looking for answers why AMD did not enable Level 5.1 per SE. Can you give us some data:
1) How much graphics memory do you have? Can you reserve more memory in Bios? (at least 512?)
2) Which Catalyst Version are you running?
3) Which display manager?
4) Please pastebin /etc/ati/amdpcsdb file
And after you played such a movie:
5) dmesg | pastebinit
Thanks in advance.
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2012-08-06, 15:43
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-06, 15:45 by fritsch.)
@Snippo:
Thank you very much. This is what i did suspect. Some "rumors", err Tim Writer of AMD told us, that it was not enabled by default, as it needs a lot of memory to be reserved, but later improvements to buffering should have made it work. (I hate this silly secret keeping on AMD side ...). I am looking forward to the day, when "real users" can test "beta drivers" - they should just release them and say "sorry not stable, no support -> bugtracker" ...
Btw. upgrading to 12.6 stable solves some other problems concerning HDMI sound, i would suggest you to upgrade. (howto is down on the first page of this thread).
Have fun using xbmc :-)
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@Snippo:
xorg-edgers also upgrade the X-Server, so we cannot suggest this in general, you could run into sever trouble. Ubuntu X-Swat is the better choice - currently they don't have 12.6, i think.
12.6 is stable, but the release had some problems with the control file - cause of this, the howto got "a bit more complicated".
@Balthazar:
You can look at the temperatures in xbmc system info.
@Pyromaniac:
Do you have some rough numbers on "when it is too hot"?
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