[mythtv-users] Lost HDMI sound in Media Library->Search Internet videos after move to Mythbuntu 12.04

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> yeah smoke and mirrors==alsa
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh I should have said, theres a lot of info (and confusion) to be
>>>>> found in /proc/asound  :-)
>>>>
>>>> that's a lot of subdirs.
>>>>
>>>> Digging around I found this recommendation:
>>>>
>>>> rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.pulse-cookie
>>>> sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
>>>> sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
>>>> sudo apt-get install alsa-base
>>>> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
>>>> sudo alsa force-reload
>>>>
>>>> should I go for it?
>>>
>>> It won't get rid of pulse. In fact I though mythbuntu didn't install
>>> pulse, but maybe that changed. My virtualbox 12.04 install doesn't
>>> have pulseaudio installed, but does have libpulse0
>>
>> That's suposed to be "I *thought* mythbuntu didn't install pulse..."
>
> sadly it didn't work. guess I'll check in with the alsa list and report back.

make sure that there is not a .asoundrc file in your home directory
which (I think) will override the settings in the global
/etc/asound.conf file.