[Mad Medik]

Request for some help, and in advance, let me appologise for the very long post and state emphatically that I have tried searching this thread and spent most of this week searching the net for a solution without success. I'd really appreciate help resolving this one.

Problem:
I get no audio while in XBMC (no menu navigation sounds, no media sound) on a frontend unit.

My main PC is running perfectly as a frontend and a server with this version of XBMC, tvtuner card, Myth backend along with Sick Beard, Couch potato, and SABnzb. It is a secondary PC in another room, that is acting as a frontend only that I am stumped on. I am 100% sure it is not a hardware problem as I was running XBMC (regular version) on Ubuntu 12.04 on this PC previously.

Setup:
Intel pentium PC 2.8ghz with 2 GB ram
AGP NVidia 6200 video card 512 MB
On board Intel Audio
Creative Sound Blaster Live! card (Shows up as CA0106 in XBMC)
USB keyboard & Mouse
Audio to LG Plasma via 1/8" stereo jack from Computer audio out (green) to monitor stereo in.
Optical audio out from monitor to amp
Video DVI out from computer to HDMI in on monitor.

--- As I have previously had XBMC running smoothly on this PC, I am confident it is not the hardware, rather a configuration issue but the above is provided for info purposes ---

What I have done so far:
Format and install Ubuntu 11.10
All updates applied to 06 July 2012
Activated proper NVidia proprietary driver (version current)
Tested the sound settings. I can hear the notification sounds, I can play music in banshee. I hear "left front, right front" or whatever she says for the speaker test when I select analog stereo or analog stereo duplex and test.
I moved the audio cable to the Creative SB output and repeated. Same results.

So far so good.

Mount network drive - Shows up as internal and is accessible within XBMC from root/media
Installed the three libboost items from post 1
Install git-core
Cloned xbmc.git from TSP's git hub link
Copied the install command for all dependancies listed in the ~/xbmc/docs/README.ubuntu including autopoint & libltdl-dev
Entered the xbmc directory and executed the ./bootstrap, ./configure, make, and sudo make install commands.
Rebooted
Start XBMC from Dash Home - looks good
Configure Settings, including Settings>System>Audio Output with Analog, 2.0 Under Audio Output Device, there are 6 options (four identical CA0106, one Intel ICH5,ICH5 and one Intel ICH5,Intel ICH5-IEC958) I set it to Intel ICH5,Intel ICH5, set GUI sounds to always plugged the audio cable into the internal sound output (green plug) and under Settings>Appearance> set the Navigation sounds to Bubbles

I tried playing the same song I played with Banshee. No sound. No navigation sounds.
I tried clicking on the settings icon in lower right in the fullscreen mode for music playback but there is no response.
I tried playing 2 recorded TV shows and a movie, all of which I have previously watched on this PC with XBMC under a 12.04 Ubuntu install. In each, I checked the audio settings during playback, trying first Analog and then going through all combinations. No sound.

I then went systematically through all iterations of the settings in the Settings>System>Audio Output; trying Analog, HDMI & Optical on all six of the output device options 4 CA0106, Intel ICH5,Intel ICH5 and Intel ICH5,Intel ICH5-IEC958 all with a song playing in the background. No sound.
I moved the audio plug to the next position and repeated the above on each of the positions on the internal, and on the Creative SB card. No sound.

I installed Gnome ALSA Mixer and Pulse Audio Volume control and ensured that there were no hidden settings on mute. I installed the XBMC Audio Mixer Add-On and checked the same; systematically checking one toggle at a time with a song playing in the background. I also cross checked by going into windowed mode and launching the sound settings and I was able to hear noticifations and the left/right test sounds.

I don't have it in front of me but I found a process to uninstall pulseaudio and update alsa. I did this, which served no apparant benefit, and caused the loss of the ssystem sound test. I couldnt figure out how to get it back, so I reformatted and installed all over again.

Same results.

I have tried disabling the internal audio in the BIOS. But other than the disappearance of the two Intel ICH5 audio device options from XBMC and the disappearance of the internal audio from the system sounds hardware menu, my tests were the same: Audio works from the desktop but no love in XBMC with any combination of settings.

I have reenabled the internal audio in the BIOS, and removed the Creative SB card. As expected, the Intel ICH5 options reappear, the Internal Audio reappears under System Settings, Hardware, and all associated Creative SB options disappear. Otherwise, my results are the same: full sound on the desktop & no love in XBMC

I am at a loss as to where to go next and my wife and kids are about to mutiny as I have cancelled the satellite package (when i got it working previously) so we now only have one working TV and I havent left the basement in about a week... a little exaggeration, but not much...

Anyhow, sorry for the loooong post but I figured I would try to provide as much detail about the problem as I could, and thanks in advance for any assistance.

MM

Here is a log file: logfile on pastebin