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I know this is an old post but I have a GT 430 on 810 and am having trouble getting alsa to work with it.  I would like to use the HDMI audio on this card.  I have tried the script on this site (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1681577) to upgrade to .24 and/or 25 but I still get alsa 23 as my version.  I have also tried the steps in this site (http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/) to upgrade alsa.  I have also tried the steps on nvidia's site (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html)  I also reached out to nvidia about how to get this working and they suggested to upgrade alsa from 23.


Any help you or anyone else can be in solving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Bret

Finally I got it to WORK!!!!!!!!

in the end it was a combination of things you and someoneelse posted./....... someone posted to disable the onboard audio (seems counter intutitive) but after that it worked in the AVWizzard and I was able to complete LinuxMCE.....  now I have to copy my media back.....

e warned I may need more help, I ave a MD that I want to setup with onboard Nvidia and I havent been able to get the onboard audio over digital (SPDIF)...

Thanks again for helping me L3mce (I owe you several beers if we meet in person)!!

Bret

my HW is
Here is my basic hardware setup:
1) MB:  Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
2) Processor:  AMD X2 3.0 GHz
3) Video: ATI 4XXX
4) Audio: ATI

i did exactly as you instructed but the AVWizzard still isnt giving any sound.  I noticed that when I rebooted that ny permissions on /dev/snd changed back (I set them to 777 so both users could access the sound card).  do you know what application the AVWizzard is using for audio?  maybe we could try to see if we can get that working and take the reboot and Wizzard out of the equation...... just a thought.

Thank you,

Bret

ok thanks... sorry for all the stupid questions but here is what I choose....
     intel-alc889a   Intel IbexPeak with ALC889A

by changing the permissions on /dev/snd I a now able to get sound through aplay for both root and my user.  however I am still not able to get sound through xine or mplayer.....

In both cases (xine and mplayer) I am still not able to get sound for either user.  However I am able to get sound for both users using aplay like this:

aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav


I feel like we are getting somewhere Thankyou L3mce for your help so far......

Bret

ok thanks for the help... here is the Pastebin

http://pastebin.com/u/bretbohlin
FYI I am on 810 (but the path you gave for 1004 is my path for 810)

here is what I did with the Model info, please let me know if I did it right:

Codec: Realtek ALC889A

options snd-hda-intel model=ALC889

i did ALC889 because the site you sent me to said this was the model for ALC889A (again please correct me if I have this wrong).

Thank you for all your help!

Bret

L3mce,

To snswer your question why I went from Supported to non-supported HW was simple.  The supported HW wasnt doing what I wanted.  Nvidia Video with Creative Labs Audio, was only getting Analog audio ad what I reallly wanted was audio over HDMI.  So I decided to try the ATI onboard card that I had disabled to see if I could get it to work.  I am not an expert here but I have been struggling with finding a decent Audio card that supports a digital out in LinuxMCE (if you know of one please let me know).

Ok that said here is the info you asked for:

dcerouter_1:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [Non-RAID5 mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9710
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 970f
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:07.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Gigabit Network Adapter (rev 10)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)


dcerouter_1:~# amixdigital=$(amixer | grep Simple | grep IEC | cut -d' ' -f4,5,6 | sort | uniq); for output in $amixdigital; do amixer set $output unmute; done
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]


Any help you can be in helping me is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Bret

Ok Im narrowing this down, I have isolated my sound issue to I think the fact that root can use audio but my user cant  when I login as my user to KDE (startx) I dont have any audio but when I loginto KDE as root (using sudo su) i have audio.  This is starting to look like a permissions issue to me.  does anyone know what user is used to run LMCE and the AVWizard?  Is it the user I setup whenI installed Kubuntu?

Again if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Thank you,

Bret

ok Thank you for your reply that worked to fix my resolution issue now it is still booting into the AVWizzard (and I can pick 1080p correctly) however, when I select HDMI for Audio I dont get any sound.

Thank you,

Bret

ok I am activly still working on this and I was just able to restore sound in kubuntu KDE as well as get full resolution for my screen.  My question to the group is how can I now setup LinuxMCE since I now have to go through the AVWizzard, so I dont loose my audio and video settings?

forgive me if this is already on the Forums or in the Wiki, I just couldnt find it.

Thank you,

Bret

Hello I am having some difficulties resetting up my core.  I originally installed it with a Nvida video card, but after using it for a year and reading more on the forums and web I realized I could use the ATI onboard card to get HDMI video and audio out.  I was able to correctly configure my system so kubuntu could get 1920x1080 (1080p) resolution and HDMI audio out.  Once I was comfortable that I had the video and audio I wanted I decided to use the AVWizard.  in the wizard I am not able to setup 1080p (only 1280x1024) nor was I able to get HDMI audio out.  to show off my new 70" sharp LED I need to run at full resolution (1080p).  Right now I do not have any audio and I am getting an error in kubuntu that says the audio open error no such file or directory ( issued command aplay -D plughw:1,0 Noise.wav [from the /usr/share/sounds/alsa dir]).  when I run aplay -l I get no sound cards found and when I run aplay -L I get nothing back (these both previously returned the card before AVWizard).  I currently get both the video card and audio card when I run lspci.

Here is my basic hardware setup:
1) MB:  Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
2) Processor:  AMD X2 3.0 GHz
3) Video: ATI 4XXX
4) Audio: ATI


Oh one more wierd thing I just noticed is that when in X aplay -l says nosound cards but when not in X I get my sound card to return (and audio to play just no sound out of speakers)

I have installed the latest Catalyst driver (v 11.12) from AMD's website (configured it for Ubuntu/intrepid) and installed ALSA 1.0.19 drivers

I would appreciate it if someone could provide me with some help and or guidance to help me resolve my issue.

Thank you,

Bret

Thank you for your responses.  I found my Problem, I was trying to use UI: "Normal Horizontal (16:9)", when I switched it to UI: "Normal Horizontal (3:4)" everything is working properly.

Thank everyone for their help!!

Hello, I am a new user to LinuxMCE and just installed 810 on a core/hyrbid to try it out. 

I am having issues using the weborbiter in 810 (#23251).  I have configured the Orbiter as sugested in the wiki.  I am able to login to the orbiter and see the first screen, however when I click on something (like Video) I get a black screen.  I can use the back button to go back to the initial screen.  I have tested this on several different browsers (Firefox - on windows XP, Firefox - on Kubuntu 10.04, IE - on windows XP, Safari - on IPad) all with the same results.

I noticed in the log (/var/log/pluto/48_LaunchProxy_Orbiter.sh.log) I keep getting the following:

05   09/05/10 21:56:31.097      Received ANYNEWS? 10222, but device hasn't identified itself yet. <0xb1cdcb90>
05   09/05/10 21:56:31.097      Received: ANYNEWS? 10222 <0xb1cdcb90>
05   09/05/10 21:56:31.097      Socket::ReceiveData 0x944ae48 failed, bytes left -1 start: 1800000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 9 Incoming_Conn Socket 9 192.168.80.1 <0xb1cdcb90>
05   09/05/10 21:56:31.097      Socket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Incoming_Conn Socket 9 192.168.80.1 <0xb1cdcb90>
05   09/05/10 21:56:31.097      TCPIP: Closing connection to -1 (Proxy_Orbiter) 0x944ae48 m_Socket: -1 <0xb1cdcb90>

I am not sure what is going on and would appreciate anyone that can point me in the right direction.

Thank you

Say I saw yer post, and was wondering if anyone had a solution, or idea what could be the problem?  I'm having a very similar issue...

The Installation seemed to work (MCE 1.1 Beta 2, using cache CD), however when I attempt to play a DVD or a divx file the video is very choppy (1 frame every 10 sec), Green in color, and shadows in the video, however I do have good audio.  I checked the resources (through top) and I'm using about 50% of the CPU and 600MB of RAM

Here are my box specs:

Processor: P4 2.8GHz HT
Video: ATI Rage Xl (onboard)
Ram: 4 GB

MCE Version: 1.1 Beta 2
GUI: UI1

I am able to play both the DVD and divx files through xine from within kubuntu. 

Any help or guidance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.