[BigKid]

Hi

Issue: No Audio - no audio device detected
System: Xbmxbuntu 12.20
Board: zotac ion itx
Card: nvidia gt630
driver: nvidia-experimental-310 ( no video with nvidia-current )

I just installed an pcie grafic card into my older ion board to see if that could help to improve the situation with some video stuttering I started to experience with some newer video files recently.
I deatctivated the onboard nvidia for video and hdmi audio.

The card is a newer model of the zotac gt630 so it should sport a kepler based chip.

I was not able to get into the gui of xbmc - only command line so I did a fresh install of xbmcbuntu 12.20.

Still no luck until I installed nvidia-experimental-310.
Now I do have video but no audio.

In the systems settings I've hdmi for video but 'error - no device detected' for audio.

Help would be highly appreciated.

[BigKid]

Googling I found that I might need go update alsa-drivers...

So I tried:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)

Install fails as no matching package seems fo be found...

[FooFighter007]

I have similar effect but with another hardware/xbmc version

I have a Shuttle XS35GT (ATOM 510/ION2) with XBMCbuntu Frodo 12.2. Audio works flawlessly with pass through HDMI but with the latest Gotham Alphas it says no Audio device found. The Audio selector is greyed-out in this case. Starting XBMC from within the XBMCbuntu Desktop enables sound again, without changing anything in XBMC.

Best Regards

Foo

[BigKid]

ok... giving up...

tried:
- udating pulseaudio - didn't update as there doesn't seem to be a newer version (ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa)
- updating to nvidia-325 - still no audio device (paa:xorg-edgers/ppa)

I will remove the card and rather live with the stuttering of a few video files...
When upgrading next time I guess I will choose older hardware (1-2 years on the market)

[nickr]

pulseaudio is completely unused and unwanted on XBMCbuntu. Did you do any basic troubleshooting like aplay -l, aplay -L, cat /proc/asound etc?

[BigKid]

pulseaudio is completely unused and unwanted on XBMCbuntu. Did you do any basic troubleshooting like aplay -l, aplay -L, cat /proc/asound etc?

I tried aplay -l and it listed no devices at all.

I'm a linux boon and did the best I can with research on google - problem ith beeing a boon is - often you do not know what to look for... I later also came to the conlusion the asa and pulse might not be used by xbmc (any more...) but was not sure...

I assume the zotac gt630 revision 2 is just too new... they switched from fermi to kepler with that revision and who knows what else changed...
I decided to wait a few month and try again with gotham... I will keep the card (outside my htpc ) and live with onboard devices and the stuttering - will reencode the affcted files instead...

[fritsch]

Use OpenELEC, it is exactly made for users, that just want to use xbmc on linux.