[LINUX] Audio Problems with Eden Beta 3 and Ubuntu 11.10

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-12 20:19

Hi everybody,

I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 on my Acer Revo 3610. I installed Eden Beta 3 and everything works, except audio in movies. Menu audio works fine using HDMI output, but everytime I start a movie (does not matter if it's DTS/AC3 or any other format, even MP3 does not work) there is a message: Unable to initialize your sound device. Check audio settings (I hope I translated correctly from my german system).

I tried to uninstall pulse-audio, tried several tweaks that I found in some forums....nothing....

A aplay -l gives me the

Code:

Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]

  Sub-Geräte: 1/1

  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]

  Sub-Geräte: 1/1

  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

  Sub-Geräte: 1/1

  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

mephisto@faustus:~$

Code:

aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

does work....

I already tried to set the device for audio/passthrough in XBMC to plughw:0,3, but again...nothing.

One (maybe?) weird thing: It does not matter what audio device I chose from the menu: The menu sounds works like a charm: always...

Do you have any hints? I really love Eden's AirPlay feature, I want to use it here ;-)

Thanks,
Jan

giftie · 2012-02-12 20:50

What does aplay -L provide?

mephisto1980 Wrote:Hi everybody,

I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 on my Acer Revo 3610. I installed Eden Beta 3 and everything works, except audio in movies. Menu audio works fine using HDMI output, but everytime I start a movie (does not matter if it's DTS/AC3 or any other format, even MP3 does not work) there is a message: Unable to initialize your sound device. Check audio settings (I hope I translated correctly from my german system).

I tried to uninstall pulse-audio, tried several tweaks that I found in some forums....nothing....

A aplay -l gives me the

Code:

Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 mephisto@faustus:~$

Code:

aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
does work....

I already tried to set the device for audio/passthrough in XBMC to plughw:0,3, but again...nothing.

One (maybe?) weird thing: It does not matter what audio device I chose from the menu: The menu sounds works like a charm: always...

Do you have any hints? I really love Eden's AirPlay feature, I want to use it here ;-)

Thanks,
Jan

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-12 21:02

Hi,

giftie Wrote:What does aplay -L provide?

Code:

mephisto@faustus:~$ aplay -L

null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

nvidia_hdmi

pulse

    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server

front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    HDMI Audio Output

dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    Direct sample mixing device

dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital

    Direct sample mixing device

dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct sample mixing device

dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    Direct sample snooping device

dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital

    Direct sample snooping device

dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct sample snooping device

hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog

    Hardware device with all software conversions

plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital

    Hardware device with all software conversions

plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0

    Hardware device with all software conversions

Thanks for any help!

Jan

giftie · 2012-02-12 23:52

Try setting the device as: plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-13 20:43

giftie Wrote:Try setting the device as: plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

Ok, done that. This time I got no error message, but still no sound. For DEV=3, I still got the message (failed to initialize...), for DEV=0 and DEV=1 no message but also no sound....

Any more hints?

Thanks!

**joethefox** · 2012-02-13 20:53

with beta3 I had audio problems too. Try this custom setting

Code:

alsa:hdmi:CARD=NVidia

P.S. remember to unmute nvidia output with

Code:

alsamixer -c <card_number>

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-13 20:53

Btw: I tried to track the exception in the logs, this is what I found:

Code:

49:09 T:2730109808   ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3,AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 (error:No such file or directory), retry with default hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

49:09 T:2730109808   ERROR: Initialize - pcm_open_lconf, alsa error: -2 - No such file or directory

49:09 T:2730109808   ERROR: Creating a Null Audio Renderer, Check your audio settings as this should not happen

Maybe that helps...hopefully...

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-13 21:07

joethefox Wrote:with beta3 I had audio problems too. Try this custom setting

Code:

alsa:hdmi:CARD=NVidia

P.S. remember to unmute nvidia output with

Code:

alsamixer -c <card_number>

Again: Exception.....

Here the log:

Code:

05:13 T:2856278896   ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device hdmi:CARD:NVidia,AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 (error:No such device), retry with default hdmi:CARD:NVidia

05:13 T:2856278896   ERROR: Initialize - pcm_open_lconf, alsa error: -19 - No such device

05:13 T:2856278896   ERROR: Creating a Null Audio Renderer, Check your audio settings as this should not happen

;-(

**joethefox** · 2012-02-13 21:25

mephisto1980 Wrote:Ok, done that. This time I got no error message, but still no sound. For DEV=3, I still got the message (failed to initialize...), for DEV=0 and DEV=1 no message but also no sound....

Any more hints?

Thanks!

Focus on plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 and plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 and no sound. To check if the channels are muted/unmuted, with

Code:

alsamixer -c 1

you should see the HDA NVidia mixer with four squares. Inside the squares there are "MM"(muted) or "OO"(unmuted)?

mephisto1980 · 2012-02-13 21:33

I can only execute

Code:

alsamixer -c 0

and here everything is unmuted (I did that a long time ago ;-) )

With

Code:

alsamixer -c 1

I get a error: "Invalid card number: 1" (again translated from german)

joethefox Wrote:Focus on plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 and plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 and no sound. To check if the channels are muted/unmuted, with

Code:

alsamixer -c 1

you should see the HDA NVidia mixer with four squares. Inside the squares there are "MM"(muted) or "OO"(unmuted)?

giftie Skilled Python Coder Posts: 2,071 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 36	2012-02-12 23:52 Post: #4 Try setting the device as: plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first you can also use XBMC Log Uploader Script. Cinema Experience Cinema Experience Wiki cdART Manager fanart.tv
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mephisto1980 Junior Member Posts: 9 Joined: Feb 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-02-13 20:43 Post: #5 giftie Wrote:Try setting the device as: plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 Ok, done that. This time I got no error message, but still no sound. For DEV=3, I still got the message (failed to initialize...), for DEV=0 and DEV=1 no message but also no sound.... Any more hints? Thanks!
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joethefox Team-XBMC Member Posts: 958 Joined: Nov 2010 Reputation: 15	2012-02-13 20:53 Post: #6 with beta3 I had audio problems too. Try this custom setting Code: `alsa:hdmi:CARD=NVidia` P.S. remember to unmute nvidia output with Code: `alsamixer -c <card_number>`
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