no sound output!

chevyflyerfive · Post by **chevyflyerfive** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:15 am

i just installed gentoox and ran magic after a successful installation. i was hoping to use xine or mplayer to play back dvd's, but i can not get any sound output. my xbox is using the hi-definition pack, and i have the sound being output through a digital optical cable. the dvd's play alright, but i can't hear anything through my speaker's. the modules load without any errors on startup, so i am not sure where to go from here. thanks

Post by **ShALLaX** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:01 am

Im not sure if digital optical is supported.

chevyflyerfive · Post by **chevyflyerfive** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:49 pm

i have run magic fix on alsa as well as alsa-0.9.2 and then reinstalled both, and during the installation process it says that the driver will support 5.1 dolby. the intel sound driver loads as a module all right, but it doesn't seem to be initialized properly. when i open the sound mixer under kde, it lists threaded oss and standard oss as sound output options (besides autodetect), but if i select either an error appears that says that there has been an error initializing the sound driver and that the device /dev/dsp/ cannot be opened. any thoughts would be appreciated.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:36 am

I accidentally compiled KDE without alsa support, which is currently being fixed for 3.1, this could be the reason.

roadrash · Post by **roadrash** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:56 am

is that why i couldnt get codeweavers crossover plugin to work maybe?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:52 am

No, I told you with that I spent a weekend recompiling KDE and ARtsD with alsa support.

chevyflyerfive · Post by **chevyflyerfive** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:21 am

if alsa was not compiled for kde, wouldn't it still work for xfce? sound did output when i used the standard stereo a/v kit, but still no output using the high definition kit. i tried an mplayer fix suggested on another thread of enabling ac3 output through the addition of ac=hwac3 in the config file, but now it says that there is no sound device! thanks for the help.

troll · Post by **troll** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:42 pm

the same here up dated but still no sound from opta cable???????

timechanter · Post by **timechanter** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:52 am

Well I thought it was just me. I have sound from the OPTO when running any of the linux Xbox distros from CD. Or even just booting from CD to an E or F fatx install. But if I transfer the boot stuff to E root, everything appears fine but no audio.

I was hoping that this ditro would be different... Well Im off to try it out.

timechanter · Post by **timechanter** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 5:24 am

Well its just like the other distro's . From CD sound, From harddisk zip zero zilch nadda.

After reading some more (on another thread) I've found that the missing bit is that from harddrive the optical out is not mirrioring the analog out. This can be shown by playing a ac3 audio track with mplayer and -ac hwac3 . Sound will appear , but no ac3 will be silent.

Any ideas?

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no sound output!

no sound output!

Have sound from opto but only when booting from CD

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