[FuzzeWuzze]

So ive looked all over for solutions, and used what i have done in the past with no luck.

Using XBMCUbuntu(the latest as of yesterday), which had like NVidia drivers 280.13.

aplay -l shows

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Back when i was using OpenElec all i would do is set it to HDMI, turn off all the passthroughs as i am just hooked up to my TV and not a receiver, set a custom type for both, and set it to
plughw:0,7

And it would work....but no such luck with XBMCUbuntu..i have tried 3,7,8, and 9 and none work...i get no error when playing a video though, there is just no sound.

One thing i found interesting is when i try speaker-test it only tries outputting on the left channel, if i try forcing it to any other channel with -s it says the argument is invalid...

I also updated to the latest Nvidia driver(295.xx) but it still does not work...im running out of ideas, i cant get any audio out of this thing now

[johnjohn1981]

try plughw:1,9 as this works on my system with the same card

[FuzzeWuzze]

try plughw:1,9 as this works on my system with the same card

Nope, i tried plughw for all of the devices and it wont work...and i cant get sound out with speaker-test either..but it only seems to be trying the left channel..i would expect it to be the center for my TV?

[Plaguester]

List "aplay -L" and use the line from that rather than plughw:0,X. Should look something like "hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0".

[pumkinut]

Have you tried creating an /etc/asound.conf file? That in conjunction with the custom settings should work.

Have you tried speakertest?

Code:

speakertest -D plughw:0,9 -c 2

[FuzzeWuzze]

Ended up getting it to work after finding some other threads

Had to use alsamixer to unmute 3 of the channels, and also turned off the menu sounds as i read that can cause issues...then plughw:0,9 worked(none of the others did).

[johnjohn1981]

it is quite strange that alsa is not picking up your on board sound as 0, like it does with mine.
out of the three systems i have with xbmc they are all 1,9

[waver123]

Hmm I'd menu sounds turned on on all of my xbmc boxes and don't have any issues, what potential issues are you referring you?