2011-01-16, 18:17
Hi all,
I have a strange sound issue which I struggle to resolve.
I recently set up a minimal Lucid installation with Dharma from the PPA which I use for testing add-ons. The hardware is pretty standard, a 3-yr old Asus laptop with only one 2-channel analog Intel audio.
I boot the laptop at runlevel 3. Before starting X I can confirm sound is properly configured (ALSA), speaker-test works fine as well as aplay.
When I launch X, I have set up XBMC to start directly from .xinitrc as a single application (no desktop environment etc.) - much the same way it works on my HTPC (which is a different machine).
When XBMC starts, I can hear all the sounds that he skin (Confluence) plays - when you hit a key, click a mouse button etc. However, when I try to play an audio file (be it WAV, MP3 etc.) the payer starts, visualisation works, time counter ticks, but no sound can be heard from the speakers. In the debug log there is nothing about it sound and there are no errors on playback.
In the top right corner (next to the clock) there is a small icon showing a "muted sound" symbol (a red loudspeaker with a strike-though). It probably means XBMC is somehow "muted", but I can't figure out how to un-mute it. I even tried the Mixer addon, but it didn't show anything unusual - only the same I see on console with alsamixer.
In system audio settings the audio device is set do "Default", 2-channel, analog.
What puzzles me most is that the system sounds from the skin play nicely, but any other audio is muted.
Has anybody seen anything like this? Any ides where to dig? Help will be appreciated.
10x in advance,
Assen
I have a strange sound issue which I struggle to resolve.
I recently set up a minimal Lucid installation with Dharma from the PPA which I use for testing add-ons. The hardware is pretty standard, a 3-yr old Asus laptop with only one 2-channel analog Intel audio.
I boot the laptop at runlevel 3. Before starting X I can confirm sound is properly configured (ALSA), speaker-test works fine as well as aplay.
When I launch X, I have set up XBMC to start directly from .xinitrc as a single application (no desktop environment etc.) - much the same way it works on my HTPC (which is a different machine).
When XBMC starts, I can hear all the sounds that he skin (Confluence) plays - when you hit a key, click a mouse button etc. However, when I try to play an audio file (be it WAV, MP3 etc.) the payer starts, visualisation works, time counter ticks, but no sound can be heard from the speakers. In the debug log there is nothing about it sound and there are no errors on playback.
In the top right corner (next to the clock) there is a small icon showing a "muted sound" symbol (a red loudspeaker with a strike-though). It probably means XBMC is somehow "muted", but I can't figure out how to un-mute it. I even tried the Mixer addon, but it didn't show anything unusual - only the same I see on console with alsamixer.
In system audio settings the audio device is set do "Default", 2-channel, analog.
What puzzles me most is that the system sounds from the skin play nicely, but any other audio is muted.
Has anybody seen anything like this? Any ides where to dig? Help will be appreciated.
10x in advance,
Assen
