[mythtv-users] HDMI – no audio GT210
Barry Martin
barry3martin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 22:48:35 UTC 2016
Hi Stephen!
> >> Yes, a look at alsamixer's output can reveal all sorts of
> interesting
> >> things. When using SPDIF output, I always have to unmute it before
> it
> >> will work. And then sometimes the automatic "alsactl save" does
> not
> >> seem to happen, so I find it a good idea to do that after I have
> >> everything working.
> >They may have changed it to 'alsactl store' else just typed the wrong
> >word -- save, store, whatever to us humans! <g> This newbie did a
> >Google search and found the storage goes to /etc/asound.conf -- which
> I
> >don't have at all (!). Significant?? Or just empty because I
> haven't
> >stored anything first?
> Sorry, I just typed the wrong word. It is "alsactl store".
OK -- not a biggie; easy enough to type the wrong word.
> Whatever your Google search showed you was not correct. Nothing
> normally writes its data to /etc - programs are supposed to store to
> /var. On Ubuntu, alsactl stores to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. The
> /etc/asound.conf file is where you would put manual Alsa
> configurations to override the automatic setup. Most people never
> need to do that, so never have to create that file.
(That may explain why sometimes my original Mythbuntu 10.10 that
recently died had some strange quirks -- I think I had the storage hard
drive mounted to /var! ...<read list? "/var" -- Hmm: 'variable'?
Sounds good to me!)
I'm guessing but perhaps I need the /etc/asound.conf
because /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and alsamixer show four S/PDIF
options?? (WAG from a newbie, I'll admit it!) ==> which one do you
want?) OTOH would seem at least one of the configuration files I
created (LowSky's and Gedaks's) would have worked.
> >And as I reminded Nick, in System Settings I don't have a 'Sound'
> icon.
> >LIS originally , not sure if that's significant.
> I think the Sound icon in System Settings may be new to 16.04. I do
> not have it in Mythbuntu 14.04 64-bit, but I do have it on my test
> 16.04 box, which is a Ubuntu install, with the Mythbuntu packages
> added afterwards. It is also possible that it is part of PulseAudio -
> that often gets uninstalled on MythTV boxes, as it can get in the way
> of things rather than help.
OK.... The BE and the Frontends are all 16.04. Checked pulseaudio on
the FE and two errors: (first) pid.c: Daemon already running. (second)
main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Looks like I'll see about clearing
out pulseaudio. Looks like could only make better!
I'm running 14.04 on this box (just Ubuntu - no MythTV on it) and it
does have the Sound icon: LIS, that's why I'm, a hare 'suspicious' as to
why I have an audio problem on the Mythbuntu box and no Sound icon.
(Not saying you're wrong, just my bullheadedness!)
> And that reminds me that on my laptop, I had to install a PulseAudio
> volume control and unmute the speaker and headphone outputs before its
> sound would work. It shows up on the Multimedia menu as "PulseAudio
> Volume Control". I think the package to install is "pavucontrol".
>
> >> And then there is a new-ish bug that means that sometimes the
> "alsactl
> >> restore" that is supposed to happen on boot does not work, or
> >> something else turns off my SPDIF output. So if I start playing a
> >> recording and there is no sound, the first thing I do is go to a
> >> command prompt and do an "alsactl restore" and 99% of the time it
> >> fixes it. Sometimes I have that problem several times in one day,
> and
> >> sometimes not at all for a month or so.
> >
> >I wonder if that's what happened on my old Mythbuntu system (RIP --
> late
> >last week I think the storage drive died) Rarely had to reboot one
> of
> >the Frontends to get sound. (That's the reason I'm using the old
> HDMI
> >cards - trying to get them to connect to the new Backend.)
> It could be the same problem - it sounds similar. I only have it on
> Mythbuntu 14.04 though, never on older versions. I have not upgraded
> yet, to I do not know about 16.04.
Oh take the plunge! (I'd drop down to 14.04 but I had enough problems
getting the tuner cards working. And yes, they're a bit on the
long-at-the-tooth side too!)
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