[Menion2k]

Hi all
I'm running on my ION2 based HTPC a custom ubuntu server 12.04 plus XBMC 13.1 with perfer audio (passthrough, decode and gui sound). I can ernumerate the HDMI Audio decode (and Denon AVR), no issue. I remember that at that time I had to work with asound.conf and other settings, which survived at a distro upgrade (my original setup was running on top of ubuntu 11.10 server). I made it following some, now outdated, HDMI audio how to guide.
Because that PPA repository of XBMC doesn't support my distro anymore, I've decided to switch to XBMCbuntu, and installed the Gotham 13 on and USB stick for testing.
Of course, no HDMI audio out of the box
So I've followed this guide http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Arc...controller quite similar to the one I've followed when I succeded. But this time no luck at all
This is my aplay -l output

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Before I made any attempt to work with alsa config file (and yes I've changed my hdmi device from 0.3 of the guide to 1.3) I had only one device available in xbmc audo setting, now more but none works

asound.conf

pcm.!hdmi-remap {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "remap-surround71"
}
}

pcm.!remap-surround71 {
type route
slave.pcm "hw:1,3"
ttable {
0.0= 1
1.1= 1
2.4= 1
3.5= 1
4.2= 1
5.3= 1
6.6= 1
7.7= 1
}
}

.asoundrc

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
ipc_key_add_uid false
ipc_perm 0660
slave {
pcm "hw:1,3"
rate 48000
channels 2
format S32_LE
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_time 0
buffer_size 4096
}
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

and I have also put the snd-inte-hda module options
My XBMC logs:

Your debug xbmc.log: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=274598
Your XBMC crashlog: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=274599

Ah neither speaker-test outputs any audio. I'd need some suggestion to start the investigation
Thanks, bye

.

[nickr]

You shouldn't need any asound files these days. Get rid of them and reboot.

[Menion2k]

I did but it's not enough
What's needed is to remove the probemask options from snd-hda-intel module options in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
This because the default one ffff,fff2 filters the HDMI point 5,7,8,9 which are codec specific, but on this platform (and a lot of similar) only the HDMI point 9 is capable to detect the attached HDMI device over ELD and finally work, see this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1552250
Now my aplay -l looks like:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Now movies sound work
I think it should be wise to put this info somewhere.
Bye

[nickr]

You are welcome to put this in the wiki. Good info, it must be something just on that platform as I have never needed that fix on my revo ion boxes.

[Menion2k]

I'll do it ASAP
Bye