Thurbs Wrote:Poofy, I tried to install XBMC live on my MAG just for fun because you can't get multichannel audio through HDMI with Windows 7 is XBMC live, did you happen to make a live disk with all the tweaks for LIVE? or keep track of what tweaks you had to make if so what? here.
LOL, no I didn't make a new Live disk- I am not a developer. Just a regular person. But I can give some idea of what I did.
The bad news?
I am pretty good with Linux (used it since 2004, was a mod for the Ubuntu forums for a while, etc.) and getting my ION box to do this trick with audio was easily the hardest thing I have done with computers in a long time (and I hackintosh daily).
Basically the problem is that any Linux Nvidia driver that is not 185 EXACTLY does not have support (aka in newer drivers the support is broken). So that means you have to use Ubuntu 9.10 as the base.
But in order for the multichannel PCM to work in 9.10 a newer version of ALSA is required than the distro ships with. So you must compile a newer ALSA and update all the proper files, then you will get this working. No fun at all...
You can't start with XBMC 9.11 Live- it by defaults comes with a newer Nvidia driver than 185. So you have to roll your own Linux setup from scratch using the Ubuntu minimal install.
Below is the guide I used, and on the thread I added the extra notes about what worked for me. But know one thing- the guide is NOT idiot proof. It really kind of used my Linux knowledge because the guide writer assumes you know a decent bit about Linux. But considering the fact that there is no alternative currently, well I think you get the idea:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=71609
Good luck!
