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Hi

I have for several days trying to get the pass through working in XBMC with my Zotac 9300 board and Ubuntu 10.04.

I have HDMI hooked up to a 7.1 receiver (onkyo) I have selected Digital Output (HDMI) in the Sound Applet.

In XBMC i have HDMI output and hdmi as pass through device

All sounds works in Ubuntu, and the navigation sounds works fine in XBMC. However as soon as start a movie in XBMC it says "failed to initialize the audio device"

I have tried follow all the various guides out there for getting the hdmi with .asoundrc and asound.conf settings. However i haven't been able to get it to work.

I would be very grateful if anyone out there that have a similar setup that can share what you did to get it to work ?

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I've also tried to install Linux Mint 11 but still got the same problems. So i then i tried windows 7 and installed latest Nvidia drivers with Nvidia HD audio. Again the same problem but when i toggled "output stereo on all speakers" in osd when i was playing a movie and the audio device seem to reset and the DTS stream was now working. However when i start a new movie the probem resurface. I guess this is a work around but very annoying to have to do this for every movie. Does anyone have any ideas what can be done to solve this ?

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Need aplay -l and aplay -L output as well as the contents of all these files: /proc/asound/card*/eld*

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Need aplay -l and aplay -L output as well as the contents of all these files: /proc/asound/card*/eld*

Code:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Code:

aplay -L
default
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
pulse
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions

However I can't find any eld files ? I read a post that claimed that these would be generated during the installation of the backports version of alsa (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/Installing...verModules

I did as instructed there but still no eld files. I have connected the htpc to onkyo TX-SR608 and are running linux mint 11