[Ninerian]

Hello,

I installed XMBC with Ubuntu minimal, as told in the guide.
Everything works fine, except of the sound. There isn't any output.
I tried several guides from the Ubuntuforum and the ALSA-webpage. Also I installed OSS but never getting the sound to work.
My Test.wav played everytime, and either aplay -vv or ossplay showed activity. Also I'm hearing some stuttering when starting an mp3 in XMBC.

When I use the XBMC-Live CD everything works fine, but I dont want to wipe my hardrive by installing this version.

Is there the possibility to copy the Live-Version over my installed? Or get the sound settings?

My system is an GA-K8NF9 with nforce4 chipset. Im using the AC97 soundchip. For further information only ask.

Thank you

Ninerian

[althekiller]

Sounds like your linux-fu isn't strong enough for the bottom-up approach. Try top-down instead, install full desktop ubuntu and remove features until you get what you want.

[Maxim]

You don't have to install the Live version, you can just run it off of a bootable flash drive or something similar.

[Ninerian]

Thanks for your answer.

Is there a guide for the top-down way?

I don't want to install it onto an stick. So this solution isn't necessary for me.

[Maxim]

Step 1) Install Ubuntu, Step 2) Install XBMC (through PPA). If you need to use digital playback then you'll need to disable/uninstall pulseaudio.

I found this thread in the How-To Tips and Tricks Forum: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=44019

It covers Hardy and Intrepid, should be pretty close for jaunty.

[boyofford]

any one bumping into this thread as I did whilst searching for solution can get answer here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2036749

[fritsch]

If you really want to start minimal, check one of those howtos:

intel: http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=52
radeon: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174854