AudioEngine branch - DO NOT REQUEST BINARY BUILDS

I have te follow error in Openelec with 290 drivers...(how can i check drivers?)

I have a Asus en210 silent Nvidia card in a HPDC 7700

"Error - No devices Found" in System - Audio Settings



Photo of error in XBMC Openelec System-settings-audio

do i need to edit settings in asound.conf or in sound.conf

Got it working in eden with old audio Engine like this

asound.conf

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
}
pcm.!hdmi {
type hw
card 0
device 7
}
ctl.!hdmi {
type hw
card 0
device 7
}

@D3LTA - provide your xbmc log, cant do anything without it

(2012-05-08 14:17)gnif Wrote:  @D3LTA - provide your xbmc log, cant do anything without it

XBMC.LOG

Complete log zip

I originally posted this in the other AE Linux topic ... probably better here (and I can't delete the other post sigh).

I'm having similar issues since the enumeration capabilities were added as D3LTA is experiencing. I'm also using the same type of card, an Nvidia G210. I've found that initially it can work fine - the ELD data is probed and it correctly identifies the correct device and up pops my Denon receiver in the GUI - everything works fine. If I suspend and resume, again, everything continues to work fine. The moment I stop xbmc or reboot - when it returns no ELD data is found and hence no sound.

The only reliable way I've found of regaining sound via the Nvidia card is through a reinstall of the OS. Simply reinstalling xbmc has never worked in my testing. Removing/reinstalling the nvidia driver does not reliably fix things - messing with ALSA (reinstalling, upgrading, etc.) likewise does not reliably fix anything. Reinstalling the graphics driver likewise does not reliably fix anything. Rebooting - numerous times, doesn't fix it. Leaving it running - nothing, switching it off and returning later, nothing. By default I used stored EDID information when X starts, i.e. I have a line in my xorg.conf of the form:


However it makes no difference if that line is present or not or whether the amp is switched on and tuned to the media player before it boots or not.

I'm fairly certain this is related directly to the G210. Firstly we're not seeing lots of "my sound isn't working!" responses from people which would suggest a wider problem. Secondly when I switch to using the onboard graphics (provided by the Sandybridge Pentium G620) ELD data and sound work fine - from suspend/resume, from reboots, from restarting (all be it just noise for DTS-HD/TrueHD but that's a seperate issue).

So some background and logs. This is an Intel DH67CF motherboard with a Pentium G620 and this addin Nvidia G210 card. Using Ubuntu 12.04 and the 290.10 driver (but I've tried the 285 through to the latest 302 betas with the same issues). I've tried disabling the onboard graphics/hdmi/sound - same result. I've tried using a probe line for the nvidia card, same result. It's something about this card - I realise that it doesn't technically support HD sound formats but it's been working fine since Gnif's early AE builds "long ago". And besides it's the ELD data that is the issue, or apparent lack of ELD data

I use the latest git (ae_rebase) from Gnif's repo

Output of aplay -l:


Output from:

cat /proc/asound/NVidia/eld#1.0


Log of successful eld data probe: http://pastebin.com/XVeiwcSZ

Log of unsuccessful eld data probe: http://pastebin.com/aCtb8Grg

Copy of guisettings.xml from working AE install: http://pastebin.com/0KGKd0qD

Copy of guisettings.xml from "broken" AE install: http://pastebin.com/hx9K4ZMJ

Obviously getting further data is a little ... complicated ... since the only way I can reliably obtain it is via a reinstall. However I'm more than happy to do that as many times as necessary if it can help resolve this issue.

@D3LTA - The version of AE that openelec has built seems to be quite old (25th April), many many changes have gone in since then, including fixed device enumeration (your problem).

@Drae - your issue is unrelated to D3LTA's, sounds like an ALSA or kernel driver issue, any chance of getting SSH access to your machine for some debugging?

@GNIF

Okay are there newer builds as you know off?? would love to stay with openelec...

Can't compile them myself

Or is there something else i can do ??

@gnif - most certainly, anything to help (or just fix my issue ). I can pm you access details in a bit, currently reinstalling a minimal ubuntu 12.04. I'll do a basic install as I usually do.

D3LTA - there's a thread for Linux AE - maybe try there. Otherwise (as the thread topic says), no binaries here. If another user cares to build one for you ofc they're free to do so.

@D3LTA - Read the title of this thread more closely, the big capital letters to be specific. Other then that, wait till its officially supported.

@Drae - Great, I have to sleep some now (3:30am here), but if you can get a complete dmesg dump before XBMC, after XBMC and after reboot it would be great.

@GNIF i am truly sorry, wasn't a real binair request.. just as a shared knowledge or something...

This is where i can find newest code? https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/939