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2011-12-17, 20:24
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-17, 20:25 by timothyh.)
This is strange. When I run xbmc from the current live cd, I have working sound. After I installed to hard disk and run it from there, I get "failed to initialize audio device" when trying to play music. I looked at the results from aplay -l and my sound card (Asus Xonar D1) is identified and is Card 0. My user ID is also show in the audio group.
What should I look at next?
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reboot and dry different devices. Whats aplay? Linux?
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No menu sounds either.
Yes. Aplay is a linux thing. XMBC Live runs on top of Ubuntu Linux.
The only other sound device is the HDMI sound output from my ATI graphics card. It is shown as card 1. I don't have a way to test that anyway.
I'm wondering what's different about running straight off the CD, which works, vs the installed version from the same CD... Should be the same thing.
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After an afternoon of fiddling with it, it's fixed.
After upgrading my dual-boot Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (without XBMC) to 11.04 as an experiment, the sound suddenly started working there. I noticed that 10.04 was using alsa 1.0.21 and 11.04 had 1.0.23.
I upgraded alsa in the XBMC partition to 1.0.24 and the sound started working there as well. I also ended up having to blacklist the hd audio driver for the ATI card because XBMC would intermittently grab it as the first card on boot-up.
Now the only audio driver I have is the Xonar D1. Oddly enough though, the Xonar D1 device still doesn't work, but the default device does which is still the Xonar card.
Maybe Eden will fix all the weirdness. But at least I have sound again!
do a search in this area as well, there are 100's of "failed to initialize audio device" messages
