[cw-kid]

I wonder if I swapped my 37" Sammy with my Dads would he notice he had a different TV set hehe.

Seriously though I will try using my Dads 37" Samsung TV with the cloned PC. If that works I am truly out of ideas as to why it does not work with my Samsung and I really haven't got the cash to go get a new TV at the moment.

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So your saying that deleting the userdata folder and setting it up again has no effect?

uNi

I have not tried that yet. was messing about getting it working with the 19" Samsung as a test.

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Could be an EDID issue between the PC and that particular TV

Could be still worth doing what I suggest with the Userdata just to be absolutely sure nothing from the cloning process has left something in one of the xml's that the HDMI link to that TV doesn't agree with.

Yes I agree its worth testing, I will try and do what you suggested

Thanks

[un1versal]

The only thing that pops to mind is that some devices need to be connected during install to be detected properly. Cloning uses the settings from previous devices in alsa, and must be recreated to overwrite any existing.

This is why I said before back to my forst post to purge alsa-utils and libasound2 and resinatll again and go through the motions of alsamixer with and while that device/TV is connected.

uNi

[cw-kid]

The only thing that pops to mind is that some devices need to be connected during install to be detected properly. Cloning uses the settings from previous devices in alsa, and must be recreated to overwrite any existing.

This is why I said before back to my forst post to purge alsa-utils and libasound2 and resinatll again and go through the motions of alsamixer with and while that device/TV is connected.

uNi

Yes I think you are probably correct. But I wasn't sure how to do that.

[bluray]

First I think the OP is using Linux not windows.

uNi

It's my bad.....I need more coffee....two teaspoons of instant coffee earlier is not enough....

[jjd-uk]

He mentions Ubuntu in the 1st sentence and several times after as well, but yes probably would have been better placed in the Linux forum.

[cw-kid]

jjd-uk I can confirm that deleting the guisettings.xml file and rebooting the PC has had no affect on the problem. Its gone back to the default skin now and I double checked the audio settings were correctly set, then played an album and same deal no sound.

I will have to backup the userdata folder and you are saying to delete its entire contents ?

Thanks

[jjd-uk]

Yes delete the entire folder/contents which is why I suggest backing it up for a quick restore if no effect.

[cw-kid]

Nah its just the same after wiping out the entire userdata folder. So what does that tell you? Its not a problem in XBMC ?

Think I need to try Uni's suggestion if I can figure out what the right commands are.

Thank again.

[un1versal]

The idea is to purge (removing any config files) and reinstall alsa-utils and libasound2

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-utils libasound2 -y
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils libasound2 -y

and a once over alsamixer making sure nothing is muted, I presume you know that because its been covered in wiki and forums.

uNi

[cw-kid]

The idea is to purge (removing any config files) and reinstall alsa-utils and libasound2

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-utils libasound2 -y
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils libasound2 -y

and a once over alsamixer making sure nothing is muted, I presume you know that because its been covered in wiki and forums.

uNi

Thanks will give it a go in a bit.

Yes I know about un-muting stuff in Alsamixer, we covered that in the install script thread.

[un1versal]

Once you done that reselect the audio output and passtrough devices again.

uNi

[cw-kid]

OK I ran the commands to uninstall and install alsa and then rebooted.

Now XBMC is not opening, I get the login prompt, if I login and then type XBMC to launch it it says

program XBMC is currently not installed. You can install it by typing

apt-get install xbmc.

Not sure what went wrong here.

I then ran the command to install XBMC. and now it says unable to open display need graphics driver etc.

Think I will restore the Acronis image and try again.

[un1versal]

That doesnt sound right at all, did by chance removing alsa-utils remove xbmc? And even if it did it wouldnt remove the video driver, very odd.

[cw-kid]

That doesnt sound right at all, did by chance removing alsa-utils remove xbmc? And even if it did it wouldnt remove the video driver, very odd.

Yeah not what I expected either but seems to have done that. Will restore image tomorrow and try to run your suggested commands again. Maybe messing with the userdata folder screwed it up.

Cheers

[cw-kid]

I restored the True Image again on to second PC, I then proceeded to change the static IP and hostname and the name of it in XBMC. I also removed lcdproc as the second PC has no LCD display unlike the first PC, I changed the rc_keymap to get the remote working properly etc. At this point the second PC is all setup and running with XBMC and just like the first PC downstairs.

I then backed up the second PC in this state, so I can restore more quickly next time without having to reconfigure the above types of settings each time.

Anyways I then ran the commands again to uninstall alsa and reinstall:

Code:

xbmc@xbmc02:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-utils libasound2 -y
[sudo] password for xbmc:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fonts-liberation libaacs0 libass4 libasyncns0 libbluetooth3 libbluray1
  libcaca0 libcdio13 libenca0 libflac8 libglew1.8 libglu1-mesa libhal-storage1
  libhal1 libjbig0 libjs-jquery libjson0 liblcms1 liblzo2-2 libmad0
  libmicrohttpd10 libmp3lame0 libmysqlclient18 libnfs1 libogg0 libpcrecpp0
  libpulse0 libshairport1 libsmbclient libsndfile1 libssh-4 libtalloc2 libtdb1
  libtiff4 libtinyxml2.6.2 libva-glx1 libvdpau1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
  libvorbisfile3 libwbclient0 libyajl2 mysql-common python-bluez
  python-imaging python-simplejson python-support swig swig2.0 ttf-liberation
  xbmc-pvr-argustv xbmc-pvr-dvbviewer xbmc-pvr-mediaportal-tvserver
  xbmc-pvr-mythtv-cmyth xbmc-pvr-nextpvr xbmc-pvr-njoy xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts
  xbmc-pvr-vdr-vnsi xbmc-pvr-vuplus
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  alsa-utils* libasound2* libsdl1.2debian* xbmc* xbmc-bin*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
After this operation, 73.2 MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 62976 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing alsa-utils ...
Purging configuration files for alsa-utils ...
Removing xbmc ...
Purging configuration files for xbmc ...
Removing xbmc-bin ...
Removing libsdl1.2debian:amd64 ...
Purging configuration files for libsdl1.2debian:amd64 ...
Removing libasound2:amd64 ...
Purging configuration files for libasound2:amd64 ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

I then rebooted at this point, XBMC then does not load and I just get a command prompt, if I login and type XBMC it again says XBMC is not installed, so somehow that command I ran is taking off XBMC.

I then ran the command to install alsa

Code:

xbmc@xbmc02:~$ sudo apt-get install alsa-utils libasound2 -y
[sudo] password for xbmc:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fonts-liberation libaacs0 libass4 libasyncns0 libbluetooth3 libbluray1
  libcaca0 libcdio13 libenca0 libflac8 libglew1.8 libglu1-mesa libhal-storage1
  libhal1 libjbig0 libjs-jquery libjson0 liblcms1 liblzo2-2 libmad0
  libmicrohttpd10 libmp3lame0 libmysqlclient18 libnfs1 libogg0 libpcrecpp0
  libpulse0 libshairport1 libsmbclient libsndfile1 libssh-4 libtalloc2 libtdb1
  libtiff4 libtinyxml2.6.2 libva-glx1 libvdpau1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
  libvorbisfile3 libwbclient0 libyajl2 mysql-common python-bluez
  python-imaging python-simplejson python-support swig swig2.0 ttf-liberation
  xbmc-pvr-argustv xbmc-pvr-dvbviewer xbmc-pvr-mediaportal-tvserver
  xbmc-pvr-mythtv-cmyth xbmc-pvr-nextpvr xbmc-pvr-njoy xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts
  xbmc-pvr-vdr-vnsi xbmc-pvr-vuplus
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  libasound2-plugins libasound2-python
The following NEW packages will be installed
  alsa-utils libasound2
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,549 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,474 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main libasound2 amd64 1.0.25-3ubuntu3 [429 kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main alsa-utils amd64 1.0.25-3ubuntu2 [1,120 kB]
Fetched 1,549 kB in 0s (3,469 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libasound2:amd64.
(Reading database ... 60531 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libasound2:amd64 (from .../libasound2_1.0.25-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package alsa-utils.
Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_1.0.25-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up libasound2:amd64 (1.0.25-3ubuntu3) ...
Setting up alsa-utils (1.0.25-3ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

After another reboot still no XBMC, so I installed XBMC again and rebooted again. This time it did not say there was no graphics installed.

XBMC then opened OK and is 12.0 version. I double checked that the audio output device and other audio settings were still correct, which there were. And I turned up the master vol in alsamixer!

When playing an album I still have the same problem however no sound.

I think I will go get my dad's 37" Samsung TV and try it on that one as a test.

As I said yesterday the cloned XBMC PC works on two other TV's OK no problems just not this 37" Samsung, which makes me think that the cloning process is not the issue ?

Thanks