[us1111]

Hi,

I was struggling to get (all) my sound working on my ION330 mobo. With pulseaudio and a default karmic installation, I would have sound for all sources, except menu sounds. Also some DVD's were not working.

However now I have fully working sound with Alsa 1.0.22 and kernel 2.6.32.1. Here's howto do it in Karmic:

Add the PPA:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable

Update system with dist-upgrade:

Code:

do apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And install the latest kernel from this repository:

Code:

install linux-image-2.6.32-10-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-10-generic

Now you can remove pulseaudio and set XBMC to the defaults (analog: default, digital: iec958)


It messed up my grub config, if so start with rescue CD and chroot into the environment and rebuild grub:

Code:

#rm /boot/grub/devices.map
#grub-mkconfig
#grub-install /dev/[i]xxx[/i]

[beha99]

I managed to install but still no sound. Do i need to do some more adjustments?

[us1111]

I managed to install but still no sound. Do i need to do some more adjustments?

Is xbmc set to default and iec958?? Maybe you have to create a .asoundrc in the home of xbmc (/home/xbmc/.asoundrc):

Code:

pcm.!default {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:0,1"
}
}

The hw:0,1 means to output to SPDIF (see aplay -l):

Code:

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

Also there sometimes are clues in the xbmc.log (even when not in debug mode)...