ASUS M3A78-EM AMD 780G (pulseaudio)

[johnnius]

I bought this motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=639&l4=0&model=2252&modelmenu=1) because of the integrated HDMI port (boxee looks incredibly sexy in 1080p), and the (relatively) decent IGP. In Ubuntu, I can get sound and video working fine through the HDMI cable, but I get no audio love from boxee. I believe this might have to do with the boxee asound.conf file?

Does anyone have any experience with this or have any suggestions? I have everything working fine now with the speakers just plugged into the soundcard, but I would prefer to have the audio on the HDMI for obvious reasons.

Also, does anyone have pulseaudio playing nicely with boxee? Would make for cool functionality to throw music around the house.

[marcel]

hi

check these threads out http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=406
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=203

[johnnius]

I'll give'r a whirl soon and post my results!

[Stezo]

I believe the problem is with in Ubuntu, and not Boxee. I don't think there is currently away for audio over HDMI with the 780G chipset.

If you do know of a way please let me know!

[johnnius]

I totally got this to work. There is one small glitch, (I'm hoping intrepid fixes this). I will post details when I get home from work tonight.

[cowst]

I totally got this to work. There is one small glitch, (I'm hoping intrepid fixes this). I will post details when I get home from work tonight.

waiting for deatils :p

[johnnius]

Sorry, emegency road trip for work.

All I really did was install pulseaudio, and make a modified asound.conf file specifying the HDMI as the default card for everything. I suspect I didn't need to install PA at all, actually.

I will post more details when I can

--john

[marcel]

cool johnnius ..post more info ..solution etc..:)

[mdpauley]

I will post more details when I can



Have a few minutes to explain??

[agentlame]

this worked for me, after a restart:


sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound

[drewfus]

i installed pulse audio because i couldnt get hulu and the like to work. now when i did that, hulu and other flash sites worked, but no sound on my harddrive divx movies.

so i did what you listed above with esound. now all my local videos play at like 8x speed with no sound at all, but hulu and flash sites still work.

the videos will play in vlc if i just double click in them from my file manager, but the sound takes about 20 seconds to start working.

why must i have one without the other? what do i need to do?

i run hardy, btw

[agentlame]

what settings do you have in:
system > preferences > sound?

[drewfus]

i have everything set to alsa. my soundcard is nvidia nforce3. it is set to nvidia nforce3 alsa mixer.

on my previous ubuntu install, i had disabled pulseaudio and removed, installing esound in its place. this fixed the hulu/flash site issue. they all worked great. however my harddrive content played at something like 4x speed with no sound.

id like both to work. please show me how. my best friend is a news director for a cbs station, and i want to show this off to him when i see him on wednesday.

thanks

[agentlame]

sadly, since i wrote that post, i've also had to remove pulseaudio on intrepid. :(

but, i'm happy to report it did not break anything else.



sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound


it's certainly worth trying. let me know if it breaks other stuff, and i'll look into it.

[drewfus]

ok. i tried that.

the first step, the rm code, didnt have any effect because terminal said that file or folder doesnt exist.

removed pulse audio and installed esound.

here is what works:
flash sites: hulu, comedy central, the like.

what does not work:
mp3's crash boxee to desktop. no sound in locally stored videos, but playback does not crash. also, video playback is at normal speed now, just no sound.

any help getting these things working would be key. tell me exactly what i need to type to give a bug report and ill do it. not a linux god by any means, its the operating system i can afford.

pps.. on a personal note, i work in a detention center for troubled adolescents, and ive been in and out of a 3 day riot. there is very little joy in my life these days, and the ability to watch the daily show on comedy central, and then be able to drift off to sleep watching serenity off of my harddrive would be like winning the lottery to me right now. any help is appreciated!

[keyhack]

I understand you have no audio through the HDMI cable, but are you able to playback 720p files without any artifacts or tearing?

I have a similar motherboard as you (Gigabyte AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX motherboard), and I cannot get smooth playback, it always results in tearing. I was curious to see if you had tried to play a 720p file yet.

If you do have success with HD content, what video driver are you using?

[johnnius]

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Hey. Sorry this took so long.

To get Audio and Video working through HDMI, in ubuntu:

Install Intrepid
Run the updates
Remove PulseAudio (sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio)
configure HDMI as your default soundcard and unmute it
create an /etc/asound.conf file like the one above (on this asus board, HDMI is card 1, device 3. I believe gigabyte's are card1 device1, but don't quote me on it).
Reboot and enjoy.

The fglrx driver that ships with intrepid corrupts opengl on the HD3200, so you'll need to use the intrepid-proposed updates. After that, you'll probably have underscan issues with the new FGLRX driver. That's where I'm at. Fixed it last night, then I kill X.

I'm sure that I've invariably omitted something, so when you try this and it doesn't work, let me know. I'll respond in less time than 2 months this time.

[timepants]

The M3A78-EM is also the same motherboard in the Neuros LINK gamma product, which is an Ubuntu-based player for internet TV. I set one of these up recently for someone and I was able to get Boxee to work nicely on it with Pulseaudio through the HDMI port.

I suggest giving Neuros's default distribution config a try if you're still having trouble.

http://forums.neurostechnology.com/index.php?topic=9592.0