I have been trying for 2 days to get linuxmce 8.10 setup on the box i just built for my core/md hybrid.
here's the specs:
ASUS P5Q-EM mobo (has built-in hdmi)
INTEL 3.0 GHZ E8400
4 GB CORSAIR DDR2 800 Mhz
Hauppauge 1600 1199
PNY NVIDIA Geforce 9800GT 1GB
ANTEC 550 PSU
WD Black 1 TB
Silverstone Lascala Case
Scenario:
Before i purchased and installed the PNY NVIDIA 9800GT, using vga moniter and regular audio
Installed kunbuntu 8.10 from dvd
Installed linuxmce from internet
Setup linuxmce using static video option and the greetings video's with the lady played fine.
ripped a dvd to hd
played that dvd fine
so now drumroll, i tried to get it setup to work with my 42-inch Samsung LCD over hdmi.
rebooted machine and held shift
AVWizard started, setup with DVD/HDMI 1, and HIGH video settings - OpenGL.blabla
Rebooted and Failed to start X
relaunched AVWizard from commandline
Chose the static overlay low video settings again.
I was not happy with graphics
Went to Bestbuy and purchase the PNY NVIDIA Geforce 9800GT 1GB.
Installed and still had problems.
Finally edited the /boot/grub/menu.1st and added vmalloc=256MB, because i read and it seemed that the hauppauge 1600 was loading before the graphics card and stealing the memory
installed the NVIDIA 190.53 drivers thru commandline
" wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/190.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run"
"sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run "
"nvidia-xconfig"
launched AVWizard, selected HDMI and High Graphics again.
Rebooted and Orbiter Generated fine, viola fliker pictures floating by and nice transparent menus.
Now the problem is video, and dvd's.
open the dvd drive and pop in a movie, then it says disc loaded and the name of the movie.
however when i select play from the Manage Drives or from the Video menu, it just flashes briefly and the flicker pictures keeps rolling
i move the mouse and there is a big white play/pause button and mute button in bottom right corner.
so i go back to the setup wizard, now the greeting video's with the lady will not play. no video's will play.
spent couple hours researching online and trying stuff via commandline. NO SUCESS
So then i decide maybe i just need to reload,
I select the Install Linuxmce from the DVD this time and followed the steps
more of same problems, never got far enough to get orbiter to generate
So then i decided to reload Kubuntu 8.10 from the dvd and then do the internet installation like the first time.
before i ran the linuxmce install scripts, i figured i would try to get the kubuntu installation to play a dvd first.
did all of the same steps
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade
aptitude upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-extras
tried to play dvd from mplayer and got a video out -vo error. tried most of the drivers under the preferences of mplayer and still no success.
checked the nvidia server program under settings and it had all the information for my graphics card and i adjusted the overscan a little to see everything on the screen.
Also i have not been able to get any audio over the hdmi. ( i attached the spdif jumper from the mobo to the 9800gt)
i 've played with motherboard settings, i changed the audio setting to SPDIF out instead of hdmi. and tried the PEG:PCI option.
I really don't know what i need to set bios options.
SO AFTER almost 2 days straight of working on this, but I'm back at square 1. Please someone have the answer or suggestions. :-\
please refer to my previous post http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9350.msg64004#msg64004
HTH
Tim
wow i thought i remember trying your solution, just in case
i ran this and it worked..thank you Tim!! ;)
wget http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/ubuntu-repos.key && sudo apt-key add ubuntu-repos.key && rm ubuntu-repos.key
and then added
deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos intrepid release
to my /etc/apt/sources.list
then did sudo apt-get update
then
#sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-195
nvidia-xconfig and reboot
so now the mplayer will play my dvd
However i think i may have messed something up trying to get video to work earlier, when i clicked the linuxmce install link on the desktop, i got a bunch of error's, so i'm going to reinstall and then use your solution to fix the video
however still no audio.
i have a bose unit connected via optical to my tv, when i put the tv on the hdmi port for my core/md , the bose does say PCM but i cannot get any audio out
like i said before i have the spdif cable connected to the spdif + and gnd on the mobo and then it plugs into the top of my graphics card. my video card has two dvi outputs and i am connecting to hdmi with a dvi -> hdmi adapter that came with kit. It is supposed to support passthrough, however i just can't get my configuration correct between the mobo settings and the kunbuntu settings.
i think i am going to wait and try to get the audio working before i reinstall linuxmce 8.10 beta 2. if i can get it working with just kubuntu 8.10 then i should be able to fix video and audio again after kubuntu installs but before linuxmce installs. then hopefully all is good!!!!
any ideas on the audio?
make sure nothing is muted under alsamixer IEC958 I think is the one .
HTH
Tim
thanks but i tried unmuting in alsa mixer.. still no sound
figured out to get my dvd playing in the pluto-xine, i had to change /etc/pluto/xine.conf and set audio to none instead of auto or alsa temporarily.
i looked at xine's logs and it was stopping because of audio error
so now im trying to figure out how to setup my audio
when i run lsmod
root@dcerouter:/dev# lsmod
Module Size Used by
udf 88484 0
crc_itu_t 10112 1 udf
xt_TCPMSS 12160 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 10752 1
ipt_TTL 9984 1
iptable_mangle 10880 1
xt_tcpudp 11008 6
xt_mark 10112 1
xt_state 10112 1
iptable_nat 13448 1
sco 18308 2
bridge 56980 0
stp 10628 1 bridge
bnep 20352 2
rfcomm 44432 0
l2cap 30464 6 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth 62180 6 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
nfsd 231024 13
lockd 71976 1 nfsd
nfs_acl 11264 1 nfsd
auth_rpcgss 42528 1 nfsd
sunrpc 196960 13 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
exportfs 12544 1 nfsd
ppdev 15748 0
autofs4 27780 1
acpi_cpufreq 15500 0
cpufreq_userspace 11396 0
cpufreq_ondemand 14988 2
cpufreq_stats 13188 0
cpufreq_conservative 14600 0
freq_table 12672 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 9856 0
video 25488 0
output 11008 1 video
pci_slot 12680 0
wmi 14504 0
container 11520 0
sbs 19464 0
sbshc 13440 1 sbs
battery 18436 0
af_packet 25856 4
iptable_filter 10752 1
ip_tables 19600 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables 22916 8 xt_TCPMSS,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TTL,xt_tcpudp,xt_mark,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables
ac 12292 0
nf_nat_irc 10240 0
nf_nat_ftp 10880 0
nf_nat 25368 4 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack_irc 13348 1 nf_nat_irc
nf_conntrack_ftp 15652 1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack_ipv4 21772 4 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack 72032 9 ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_state,iptable_nat,nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conntrack_ipv4
sbp2 29324 0
parport_pc 39332 0
lp 17156 0
parport 42604 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
mxl5005s 50052 1
s5h1409 17156 1
tuner_simple 22288 1
tuner_types 21888 1 tuner_simple
cs5345 11124 0
tuner 33096 0
cx18 96960 2
dvb_core 86144 1 cx18
videodev 41344 2 tuner,cx18
v4l1_compat 22404 1 videodev
compat_ioctl32 9344 1 cx18
i2c_algo_bit 14340 1 cx18
snd_hda_intel 385072 0
snd_pcm 83204 1 snd_hda_intel
cx2341x 20996 1 cx18
prism2_usb 80260 0
snd_seq 57776 0
p80211 38536 1 prism2_usb
v4l2_common 19840 4 cs5345,tuner,cx18,cx2341x
snd_timer 29960 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
tveeprom 20228 1 cx18
snd_seq_device 15116 1 snd_seq
evdev 17696 10
snd 63396 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
psmouse 45200 0
soundcore 15328 1 snd
pcspkr 10624 0
serio_raw 13444 0
snd_page_alloc 16136 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
nvidia 8889956 60
i2c_core 31892 10 mxl5005s,s5h1409,tuner_simple,cs5345,tuner,cx18,i2c_algo_bit,v4l2_common,tveeprom,nvidia
button 14224 0
intel_agp 33980 0
agpgart 42184 2 nvidia,intel_agp
shpchp 38036 0
pci_hotplug 34976 1 shpchp
ipv6 264356 36
ext3 133384 1
jbd 55956 1 ext3
mbcache 16004 1 ext3
sr_mod 22212 0
sd_mod 42392 3
crc_t10dif 9984 1 sd_mod
cdrom 43168 1 sr_mod
sg 39732 0
pata_acpi 12160 0
usbhid 35712 0
hid 50560 1 usbhid
ata_piix 24708 2
ohci1394 37936 0
ata_generic 12932 0
ieee1394 96324 2 sbp2,ohci1394
libata 178336 3 pata_acpi,ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod 155468 5 sbp2,sr_mod,sd_mod,sg,libata
dock 16656 1 libata
r8169 37636 0
mii 13440 1 r8169
uhci_hcd 30864 0
ehci_hcd 43788 0
usbcore 149616 5 prism2_usb,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
floppy 64644 0
raid10 30464 0
raid456 135184 0
async_xor 11520 1 raid456
async_memcpy 10112 1 raid456
async_tx 15312 3 raid456,async_xor,async_memcpy
xor 23688 2 raid456,async_xor
raid1 30080 0
raid0 15488 0
multipath 15104 0
linear 13440 0
md_mod 94108 6 raid10,raid456,raid1,raid0,multipath,linear
thermal 23708 0
processor 42156 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 12548 0
fbcon 47648 0
tileblit 10880 1 fbcon
font 16512 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit
fuse 60956 1
compcache 13004 1
lzo_decompress 10880 1 compcache
lzo_compress 10880 1 compcache
tlsf 14220 1 compcache
aplay -l was showing
root@dcerouter:/usr/share/sounds# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
and
root@dcerouter:/usr/share/sounds# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@dcerouter:/usr/share/sounds# nano /etc/asound.conf
root@dcerouter:/usr/share/sounds# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@dcerouter:/usr/share/sounds# aplay -L
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC888 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
until i ran /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices
now it looks like this
root@dcerouter:/dev# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...
root@dcerouter:/dev# aplay -L
root@dcerouter:/dev#
currently what my /etc/asound.conf looks like after playing around
pcm_slave.spdif_convert48k {
pcm "spdif"
rate 48000
}
pcm.spdif_playback {
type plug
slave spdif_convert48k
}
pcm_slave.hdmi_convert48k {
pcm "hdmi"
rate 48000
}
pcm.hdmi_playback {
type plug
slave hdmi_convert48k
}
pcm.asym_spdif {
type asym
playback.pcm "spdif_playback"
capture.pcm "plughw:0"
}
pcm.asym_hdmi {
type asym
playback.pcm "hdmi_playback"
capture.pcm "plughw:0"
}
pcm.asym_analog {
type asym
playback.pcm "plug:dmix"
capture.pcm "plughw:0"
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
type hw
card Intel
device 1
subdevice 0
}
}
getting this audio working is the final problem, please help!!!
problem solved..after another whole day..
used the alsa update script found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137) to upgrade from 1.0.17 to 1.0.19 (tried 1.0.22 but no soundcards were detected)
changed the options from
DRIVER=alsa-driver-1.0.21
FIRMWARE=alsa-firmware-1.0.20
LIB=alsa-lib-1.0.21
PLUGINS=alsa-plugins-1.0.21
UTILS=alsa-utils-1.0.21
TOOLS=alsa-tools-1.0.21
OSS=alsa-oss-1.0.17
to
DRIVER=alsa-driver-1.0.19
FIRMWARE=alsa-firmware-1.0.19
LIB=alsa-lib-1.0.19
PLUGINS=alsa-plugins-1.0.19
UTILS=alsa-utils-1.0.19
TOOLS=alsa-tools-1.0.19
OSS=alsa-oss-1.0.17
to install 1.0.19 and then re-ran avwizard and now im getting pcm, dolby 5.1 over the hdmi...whoohoo ;)
i can finally sleep!