Alan,
A long while ago i used your guide to get multi channel sound from my nvidia ion system - then running xbmc live 9.04 on a usb drive. It worked perfectly - i commented on page 3.
I have now installed a SSD for added speed as the usb was too slow.
This time i've downloaded the latest 9.11 build of live and installed that to disk. As expected it installed fine, but the multichannel sound is still not there.
So i have returned to your guide to get me back up and running - but this time im having problems!
First, these lines:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo reboot
wiped my video drivers. I had to replace them using these commands via Putty.exe on another machine. I only had access to the command line - is that last command the best way to do it?
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-195-modaliases nvidia-glx-195
Next, i cannot run your modified ALSA script.
This line runs ok:
sudo apt-get install tofrodos
This line says user xbmc is already part of the audio group:
sudo adduser `who | awk '{print $1}'` audio
This line seems to download the script ok:
wget http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f29c37574 -O Alsa_upgrade-1.0.21_hd.sh
These two lines execute without any feedback:
sudo chmod a+x Alsa_upgrade-1.0.21_hd.sh
dos2unix Alsa_upgrade-1.0.21_hd.sh
I can't remember if they gave any info before though.
Here is the problem. This line gives the same error regardless of what switches i have at the end.
sudo ./Alsa_upgrade-1.0.21_hd.sh -dpi
ERROR = "
1: Syntax error: newline unexpected"
Can you help please