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For those of you running full desktops - a heads up! To get audio I am running the ALSA daily repo which I suspect others are since the ALSA that many distro push out is old. Last night I lost sound and had no output device. Thinking back I remembered applying all system updates and in checking my version of ALSA was dated Dec 23rd and had been updated. I rolled back to code dated the 17th of December and sound has returned! Looks like the ALSA guys broke Intel sound with one of their last updates to the daily repo. I think I'm going to keep a copy of this older file around in case it happens again since for me it's known good (I'm sure others are too) so rolling back is easy.

I'll be trying the latest Openelec on my other box ASAP in hopes this latest update solves the weird performance issue I've got but hadn't investigated yet with HD video. Fingers crossed as I suspect it was a setting issue that this fixes :-)