2008-12-13, 11:36
Hi,
just wanted to share something I encountered following an upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on my HTPC which is obviously running XBMC.
Basically the sound settings at the Kubuntu level kept getting reset to really low or 0% values so whenever I booted up I had no sound in XBMC. I had to fire up alsamixer from a shell and adjust the levels up and all would be fine until the next reboot.
For some reason there is an initialisation script that resets the alsamixer settings so I disabled the sym-links to this and this worked out fine for me:
The strange thing is that the actual script at /etc/init.d/alsa-utils seems to have reasonable default values so not sure why my main volume controls were being set to zero.
But the above workaround is fine for me so thought I would share.
Cheers,
Hitman
just wanted to share something I encountered following an upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on my HTPC which is obviously running XBMC.
Basically the sound settings at the Kubuntu level kept getting reset to really low or 0% values so whenever I booted up I had no sound in XBMC. I had to fire up alsamixer from a shell and adjust the levels up and all would be fine until the next reboot.
For some reason there is an initialisation script that resets the alsamixer settings so I disabled the sym-links to this and this worked out fine for me:
Code:
sudo mv /etc/rc0.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc0.d/k50alsa-utils
sudo mv /etc/rc6.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc6.d/k50alsa-utils
The strange thing is that the actual script at /etc/init.d/alsa-utils seems to have reasonable default values so not sure why my main volume controls were being set to zero.
But the above workaround is fine for me so thought I would share.
Cheers,
Hitman