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EVen with the sound setup as manual then my asound.conf file is still being edited on a reboot. 

Is there someway i could restart alsa only (ie without a full reboot?).  Hopefully this way my asound.conf would remain and i could start to isolate hdmi audio.

Or are there any other ways i could stop mce adjusting my asound.conf file?

Should have searched a bit harder:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Reset_the_password_for_the_LinuxMCE_Admin_site

So i have just had to reinstall my system completely (not fun!) and am now trying to get into webadmin.  For some reason the username / password I setup during the wizard does not let me log in.  Is there some way around this without reinstalling the system again?

Please help!

Thom;

thanks.  I have a bit of spare time this weekend and want to try and get audio via hdmi.  The asound.conf i have attached above will if nothing else get audio over hdmi in kde which is a move forward from my current set up.

For future reference;

I would advise everyone to set their BIOS that when a machine has its power cut it remains off and doesnt come back on! 

Mine will be set like this in future (until i can get the cash together for an UPS).

So during a heavy thunderstorm the power went off and back on lots of times, sadly i was stuck at work and i think this repeated power cycling might have killed my install!

I have switched on my hybrid and the boot process gets as far as;

Orbiter generation Start
Orbiter generation Done

But then stops.

All hard drive activity stops and the machine is just sat waiting.

Is there anyway i can recover this system or am i back to starting from scratch?

Thanks for your help so colin.  I will give it a go and see how i get on.

Thanks colin.  I had suspected the avwizard was modifying the asound.conf file.  Is there any way i could find what the trigger is at all?  Or an easy way to restart alsa sound whilst the system is up and running to see if that helps? 

I have found the wiki relating to preventing the modification of xorg.conf but it doesnt really give much in the way of clues for sound;

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Custom_Display_Resolutions

Prevent LinuxMCE from changing the Xorg config

This is a bit of an ugly hack, and if the above is done correctly I'm not sure if it's even needed. Nevertheless, if you want to get really creative and write your own xorg.conf, this is the way to protect it from being overwritten:

Edit /usr/pluto/bin/Xconfigure.sh and add the following lines immediately below the #!/bin/bash:

   echo "$0 neutered to preserve custom xorg.conf"
   exit 0

I have been trying to get my hdmi audio working for sometime.  During my kde install i managed to get the HDMI audio working fine, but since running the avwizard during my initial 0810 setup I have never had any sucess (in KDE or Linux MCE). 

After a fair bit of digging around I think part of the problem is down to my asound.conf file being changed everytime i start the system up (i think by Linux mce). 

I had set my HDMI audio up as detailed below;


pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave {
                pcm multi
                rate 48000
        }
        ttable.0.0 1.0
        ttable.1.1 1.0
        ttable.0.2 1.0
        ttable.1.3 1.0
}

#ctl.!default hdmiout

pcm.optical {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 1
}

ctl.optical {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 1
}

pcm.hdmiout {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 3
}

ctl.hdmiout {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 3
}

pcm.multi {
        type multi
        slaves.a.pcm "hdmiout"
        slaves.a.channels 2
        slaves.b.pcm "optical"
        slaves.b.channels 2

        bindings.0.slave a
        bindings.0.channel 0
        bindings.1.slave a
        bindings.1.channel 1

        bindings.2.slave b
        bindings.2.channel 0
        bindings.3.slave b
        bindings.3.channel 1
}

ctl.multi {
        type hw
        card 0
}


This was working fine under KDE but everytime i start my machine (even if i edit the asound.conf file back to the above), the asound.conf file actually contains the following;

type plug
slave {
pcm multi
rate 48000
}
ttable.0.0 1.0
ttable.1.1 1.0
ttable.0.2 1.0
ttable.1.3 1.0



#ctl.!default hdmiout

pcm.optical {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 1
}

ctl.optical {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 1
}

pcm.hdmiout {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 3
}

ctl.hdmiout {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 3
}

pcm.multi {
        type multi
        slaves.a.pcm "hdmiout"
        slaves.a.channels 2
        slaves.b.pcm "optical"
        slaves.b.channels 2

        bindings.0.slave a
        bindings.0.channel 0
        bindings.1.slave a
        bindings.1.channel 1

        bindings.2.slave b
        bindings.2.channel 0
        bindings.3.slave b
        bindings.3.channel 1
}

ctl.multi {
        type hw
        card 0
}

pcm.!default asym_analog


From what i can see the "edited" asound.conf isnt even a valid file, and is certainly in confliction with the manually edited file i had created.

I have searched the wiki and found some useful information for forcing the avwizard to not alter the xconf file, but nothing relating to the way MCE edits the alsa files.

Can anyone help?

I have checked the versions on my MCE hybrid and both the KDE desktop and Linux MCE version are firefox 3.0.11.

I am really confused as to why Flash does not work in mce but is fine under kde. Can someone give me an idea what could be going on, and some details on how linuxmce calls for firefox to start?

perfect thanks.  I will have a dig around the pluto folders and see if i can find where firefox lives!

Ok, thanks.  When i try and install the flash plugin from with MCE i cannot get the .deb to open so i am forced to drop down to the desktop to actually execute the .deb (or manually unpack a tar.gz). 

Is there any way i can force the flash player to install for all users and versions of firefox installed? (Or change the version MCE calls from computing?).

Anyone any ideas on this?  It is driving me crazy!

SOLVED :: I had to reinstall my machine and the fault hasnt re-occured.  Wierd but fixed.

I have been having problems getting the flash player plugin working in mce (0810alpha) for a while and am finally getting around to looking at it.  

If i drop to KDE and launch firefox then the flash player plugin works fine.  If i launch firefox from computing within MCE then i get the "flashplayer not detected or installed" link.

I have search the forum / wiki and found this thread;

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=4140.0

I followed the guide (even though im not using the 64bit version of kubuntu the symptoms are the same) using sudo -u root bash  and placed the plugin in both locations described, but the problem continues.

Is there anyother way forward for me getting flash working under mce?

Im about half way through a newbie style user guide for 0810 (currently in open office format).  This could be linked somewhere as a guide for people to download with MCE (or where ever you think it fits the layout of your page). 

Once this guide is complete I will then be focusing back in on the wiki to try and tidy up which entries are suitable for which version of Linuxmce.

If you would like to look at the rough cut of the user guide i am putting togeather I am willing to email it, just let me know.