[rbrohman]

So the current state of XBMC Live and the GT 430 is.....? Workaround is still needed? Does anyone have this setup working 100% for the 3MS (movies, music, and menu sounds)?

Thanks

[thethirdnut]

Yes. Works great.

Ubuntu min 10.04 + alsa 1.0.23 -OR- Ubuntu min 10.10 [comes with alsa 1.0.24]
+
Nividia drivers

[rbrohman]

thethirdnut - do you mean it works great once you went through the tutorial on pg 4 of this thread? Or it worked just straight up once you updated alsa and installed the latest nvidia drivers?

Does the GTS 450 have the same issues as the GT430?

[thethirdnut]

thethirdnut - do you mean it works great once you went through the tutorial on pg 4 of this thread? Or it worked just straight up once you updated alsa and installed the latest nvidia drivers?

Does the GTS 450 have the same issues as the GT430?

I followed some of the info in this or prior posts + these URL's.

Basic Min Ubuntu install info used for both HTPC's
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...hlight=xci

To figure out proper probe_mask
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1668737

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Info on system in my sig; refers to XBMC1 with the GT-430
OS = Ubuntu Minimal 10.10 x86_64
Nvidia = 260.19.44
Alsa = 1.0.23 [comes with Ubuntu 10.10]
Onboard Sound = DISABLED [why makes things more confusing?]

-- Got everything installed, working for the most part as per link1
-- Also installed Nvidia drivers, XBMC was run through 'xinit xbmc' at this point
-- Used link2 to figure out which eld* / device was in use
-- added the following to '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf'

Code:

#for HDMI
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x108

-- also this is my current '/etc/asound.conf'

Code:

pcm.!default hdmi:NVidia
pcm:iec958 hdmi:NVidia

I honestly dont recall if this was default or not, but those two lines are it now.
**I DID NOT TOUCH ANY OTHER ALSA FILES.**

-- At this point tested out sound using aplay, etc all worked. NEED TO REBOOT for all main ALSA changes to take affect


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Within XBMC used these settings:

VIDEO SETTINGS

Render = auto
Allow HW ACC (VDPAU) = yes
Adjust display refresh to match = yes [used this URL for that generation of the proper xorg.conf]
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...=juddering
Sync playback to display = yes
A/V sync method = Audio clock
Allowed error in aspect ... = none
..the rest... = defaults

SYSTEM SETTINGS

1920x1080, 60 Hz, Vsync = always enabled

AUDIO SETTINGS

Audio Output = HDMI
Speaker Conf = 5.1
Boost volume on downlevel = yes

AC3 Capable Receiver = yes
DTS Capable Receiver = yes

Audio output device = hdmi
Passthrough output device = hdmi

-- last 2 are courtesy of the /etc/asound.conf file

With this all proper 5.1 and even 7.1 mapping work great. DTS-HD is played as DTS core, Dolby TrueHD gets sent as LPCM.

Hope this helps.

[rbrohman]

That's very helpful, thank you!

[thethirdnut]

That's very helpful, thank you!

No problem. Hope this works out for you.

[waxer]

Also had problem with no menu sound..
Easy fix, goto xbmc root folder (e.g. /home/xbmc/)
Create .asoundrc, and add the following:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hdmi"
}
}

Ubuntu + xbmc + gt430 setup Thanks to this post..

[KeithLM]

Perhaps someone here can help me. I've got a GT430 in my system and had it set up running mostly fine. I had no sounds in the menu, but I don't care about that at all, actually I figured I had them turned off. But I was having a minor issue in that every time I started a video the video would stutter for 5 seconds, while audio would play, but it appears from the log that it was actually an issue with the system having trouble with the audio. Odd, but it's linux. Here's my thread dealing with that.

So after doing some research and reading this thread and others, I decided to try
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x108
and I ended up with menu sounds! Sadly, no other audio works. So one tiny step forward, one huge step backwards.

The output from aplay -l and aplay -L changed dramatically after I added those options. Here's how it is now:

Code:

keith@Holly:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
keith@Holly:~$ aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions

I've tried setting the audio output to custom plughw:0,3 but that doesn't work. I've tried some of the other devices, hdmi (ALSA), defaults, etc., all give me the "Failed to initialize" popup when I start a video. Also in XBMC there are no longer any nvidia devices listed under the audio options.

I've tried the following .asoundrc in my home directory, it makes no difference:

Code:

pcm.!default hdmi:NVidia
pcm:iec958 hdmi:NVidia

Anybody have any idea what the appropriate settings are?

[thethirdnut]

You have PulseAudio in the mix as well...info posted above pertains to strictly ALSA config...no PulseAudio on those systems.

There should be a lot of PulseAudio threads in the forum...perhaps try that avenue?

[KeithLM]

You have PulseAudio in the mix as well...info posted above pertains to strictly ALSA config...no PulseAudio on those systems.

There should be a lot of PulseAudio threads in the forum...perhaps try that avenue?

I didn't realize there was a difference or that it could work either way. I have it working for the time being. Unfortunately I can only have menu sounds, or I can have sound with my videos, but not both. It'll do.