when I get some free time.  Not much of that when you have kids ;-)

amen, I've got one and she's a handful.

Ok, I think this is just the evolution of alsa as I can't seem to get this fully working after upgrading alsa to .23 or .24 or upgrading the kernel to the latest version available (3.x) as well as the latest nvidia driver.

The furthest I got was getting stereo to push via HDMI. I had myth working as well though the Dolby and DTS passthroughs were not working, neither were any multi-channel audio tests (nothing more than stereo) by updating the

At this point i'm reverting back to a TOSlink/SPDIF cable so i can continue regression testing the box.

I've posted my progress/notes here:
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Zotac_Zbox_ID41-U

Odd, I wonder if that's an upstream ubuntu issue:

Code:

dcerouter_1021517:~# apt-cache policy radvd
radvd:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.3-1.1
  Version table:
     1:1.3-1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

Which remote? Mine is working with the gyration 3101us

it seems to be a known issue, at least for the ion 2 chips (which is my issue and may not be gtsupport's, though the symptom is identical). I'm still experimenting on my MD, it looks like if i can get it working i'll need to update the scripts specific to this type of board to setup the asound.conf and alsa config options.

I just picked up a new ZOTAC ZBOX Intel Atom D525 1.8 GHz Dual Core Barebone Mini-PC ZBOX-ID41-U:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WO8O9Y

And I'm having the exact same issue as you are now with this hardware. It looks like it has an nvidia ION GT218 and my amixer output looks identical to yours. I'm going to be experimenting with some configuration changes and updates, specifically what i've been finding is:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:HDAudioPassthrough

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=69601

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2312420&postcount=7

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210%2C_GT220%2C_or_GT240

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1552250

Additional card details:
The command lspci -nn | grep -vi "non-vga" | grep -i vga | sed 's/.*://;s/\].*//' results in:
  Second Generation ION    0x0A64

Code:

root@moon393:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

root@moon393:~# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC892 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

I'll let you know what i find out.

Thank you for testing!

LMCE 8.10 needs to correspond to OS kubuntu desktop 8.10

I agree, it most likely does have to do with your xorg file, try removing it completely, edit the /etc/pluto.conf file and change the AVWizardOverride to = 1, then reboot.

The reason why I say remove it completely is because MCE will completely take control of the file creation and create it based on your hardware. The problem is that it assumes the configuration (if the file previously existed) was a solid working configuration. The nvidia driver updates the xorg file in some way that breaks MCE, so when you attempt to go into the AVWizard whiplash gives the 'Failed to start X' error message.

To answer your previous question, the reason I suspect why you're having so much difficulty is due to the relative 'newness' of hardware. My assumption is based on the fact that the hardware you're utilizing was released in late 2010 and running it on an OS designed in early 2010. I had the exact same problem as you did on the 810 revision as the hardware I had was built in 2009 so I couldn't get alsa to properly send audio over hdmi.

I would suspect your manual workaround issues will be resolved once we move to 12.04 and everything will 'hopefully' work out of the box for you.

fyi - package compilation process has run - the fix is now available.

I don't see anything wrong with the hardware either, the only thing is that it's relatively recent (looks like about a year old). I don't think this is your problem though outside of the fact that until we move up to 12.04 you may need to install alsa outside of our installer process.

In alsamixer (CLI utility) is everything unmuted right now - or specifically when you're in the MCE orbiter? If not can you test playing media when everything is unmuted?

Since you have the IEC958 entries I don't see (at first glance) why this isn't working.


 For example here's my amixer scontents:

Code:

root@moon370:~# amixer scontents
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [on]
  Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]

The only apparent difference I see between your output and mine in that regard is that I have one more entry (IEC958,1).

If everything is unmuted and you've tested and you're still not hearing any output over hdmi the next thing I'd test is installing the latest nvidia driver set http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-285.05.09-driver.html - reboot - and then re-installing the latest alsa (to pick up any changes that occur from the nvidia driver install) and checking out the amixer scontrols to see if you have any different output.

A fix has been committed and I've verified it on this issue #1285, as soon as the next package compile occurs it will be available to everyone. (usually in about a day or so)

To take advantage of this, you'll need to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and re-run the /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh file.

I wish I could reproduce it, but I can't on my hardware and we've ruled out the easy answers.

What does your setup look like (i.e. all the hardware involved, especially video card - i can tell it's an nvidia by the output you've provided)?

Is the machine with the issue a core/hybrid combo or is it a media director off the core?

What i'd try next is:
Kubuntu install --> MCE install --> Select HDMI for video AND HDMI for audio (say yes you can hear the first screen with general volume and say no to the other two (one is DTS and the other is dolby i think), your receiver may not be able to play it anyway - this tells the database to play sound via HDMI when viewing/listening to media within MCE) --> install the latest alsa (odd that the alsa rev for 1004 doesn't auto detect your hardware, I'm assuming this hardware is pretty new?) --> run the command: amixer scontents - ensure you have the IEC958 entries --> run alsamixer and unmute (with the M key) the IEC958 entries --> test audio within MCE

You can always go back into the avwizard to reset these parameters via the advanced menu in the OSD orbiter, or by holding the shift key upon boot.

I agree with posde in terms of vision with the exception of the comment on new features (specifically Thom's game player which is sweet  ), though I personally feel that new features keep the project alive and keep contributions coming. While I agree that older components need to be maintained and kept in a working state it doesn't seem to hold developer interest.

Hi Seth - posde is working on the new dvd installer for 1004 and his goal is to make it like the one used in 710. I'm working on hardening the internet install and MD installation process. All issues I've encountered and am aware of have a trac ticket, if you have any issues with the 1004 installation process please let me know or better would be to log a ticket!

I have a trac ticket on this #1285 im working through. Something is happening when the nvidia driver is installed on the first boot which causes this. If you chroot on your core to the diskless fs and install the driver it boots correctly.