[leorik]

Just for clarification: ~ means the homedir of the current user. So if your username is leorik and you run XBMC as leorik you probably have to create this file in /home/leorik/.asoundrc

Or put it in the global /etc/asound.conf like X3 said. The app/lib that uses these files is ALSA and that's installed for sure.

Yup. that's what I meant by ~, my users home. that's where my .asoundrc file resides.

also....

root@htpc01:/etc# ls -larth /etc/asound.conf
ls: cannot access /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory

Maybe i missed something in my installation? Again, movie and music audio work just fine in xbmc. aplay works just fine when I play a sample sound. Just xbmc menu navigation audio doesnt work.

[LB06]

You can create the file. By default, there is none.

[leorik]

You can create the file. By default, there is none.

I tried that before I went back to work (lunch).


I wasn't sure what to put in there, so I just did a sudo cp ~/.asoundrc /etc/asound.conf
then rebooted.

still no sound.

should that have worked?

[LB06]

Yes it should. Try to append the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (an already existing file)

Code:

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x8

Then change your XBMC settings to plughw:0,3 (both audio and passthrough) and change your /etc/asound.conf to this:

Code:

pcm.!default
{
    type plughw
    card 0
    device 3
}

Also remove .asoundrc

Then do

Code:

sudo modprobe -r snd-hda-intel && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

and reboot X and XBMC. Or just reboot completely, just to be sure. Might work.

[leorik]

Yes it should. Try to append the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (an already existing file)

Code:

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x8

Then change your XBMC settings to plughw:0,3 (both audio and passthrough) and change your /etc/asound.conf to this:

Code:

pcm.!default
{
    type plughw
    card 0
    device 3
}

Also remove .asoundrc

Then do

Code:

sudo modprobe -r snd-hda-intel && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

and reboot X and XBMC. Or just reboot completely, just to be sure. Might work.

FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel is in use.




Here's some more info from me poking around

grep eld_valid /proc/asound/NVidia/eld*
/proc/asound/NVidia/eld#0.0:eld_valid 0
/proc/asound/NVidia/eld#1.0:eld_valid 1
/proc/asound/NVidia/eld#2.0:eld_valid 0
/proc/asound/NVidia/eld#3.0:eld_valid 0

root@htpc01:/# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[leorik]

LB06.

Thanks for staying with me! I got it!

For anyone that reads this later....here's what worked for me.


no .asoundrc file
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (i tried this before after reading what thethirdnut said, but must have mucked something up, because it didnt work before)

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x102

/etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default
{
type plughw
card 0
device 7
}

Then in xbmc I changed audio output device to: GF108 High def audio controller digital



woot!


Now time to buy and build a zotac zbox ion/atom for me. The first was for the wife in the living room


Thanks all.