<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Mark Boyum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Andreas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxdreas@dslextreme.com">linuxdreas@dslextreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Am Saturday 11 October 2008 17:05:56 schrieb Brad DerManouelian:<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">> I'm running Ubuntu Hardy. With all this talk about how great xbmc is,<br>> I decided to give it a try. I installed it and couldn't get much<br>> working (for instance, I had sound in the interface, but no videos<br> > would play back with sound, I couldn't get it to talk to the Myth uPNP<br>> server, etc, etc.)<br><br></div>I just installed it too, with mixed results. But then again, it's in beta<br>status, and the Linux branch seems a rather recent development.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> so I go back to my myth frontend and now I don't<br>> have sound *anywhere*. I uninstalled xbmc and still no sound. I<br>> noticed xbmc installed pulseaudio. I uninstalled that. I still have no<br> > sound.<br><br></div>Must be a Ubuntu thing. XBMC does not require pulse audio. At least not on my<br>openSUSE installation, and also not according to their website:<br><a href="http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code" target="_blank">http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code</a><br> and especially<br><a href="http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux" target="_blank">http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux</a><br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I've been hacking at this for a few hours now and I'm about to<br>> reformat my machine just to get my audio back. Any help is appreciated.<br><br></div>I have absolutely no idea about Ubuntu (or any debian & derivatives) , but<br> maybe you can force a re-install of all the "sound stuff", particularly alsa,<br>the sounddriver's firrmware, and libasound? And I see lots of references to<br>a file "asoundrc" when people report sound problems here. Just search the<br> mailing list archives for more infos.<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Yeah, I've been through all this stuff over the past 3 years with mythtv, but this was my first ubuntu no sound experience and couldn't fix it. I found a post on the ubuntu forums from August where someone had the exact same problem I did (xbmc, then no sound). He ended up reinstalling ubuntu - and it happened again to him. So I've decided to just reinstall and not try xbmc again. :)</div><div><br></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br></div></body></html>