Help me, mister wizards -
I've googled the sh!t out of this already, so I AM trying to help myself.
Running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a Zotac Zbox HD-11 nettop. Trying to make this the living room music streaming appliance.
I fiddled endlessly trying to get HDMI audio to work and finally gave up. I think you CAN get it to work through XBMC, but that's not "enough", because I need both a digital source (for the primary listening area) and an analog source (so that the Onkyo TX-SR805 can feed zone2 with the music signal whether we are listening to it in the main area or not).
I have it hooked up via SPDIF and also analog.
I can hear system sounds and browser-based streaming in both zones just fine.
I'm trying to use Rhythmbox as a music player, and no matter what I do, I can't get any sound in Zone2. Same thing for XBMC. Primary zone is fine, but don't seem to have the analog output. But I know it is working at a system level.
Any ideas?
SOLVED (for me)
Zotac zBox HD-ID11
Ubuntu 10.10, 64bit fully updated
(with Partners, Independent and Medibuntu repositories enabled, not that i think it made any difference)
the following instructions are taken from this blog:
http://ossnotebook.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=14
Quoted (with minor modification):
on alsamixer press F6 to select the nvidia card, enable all s/PDIF devices
# list the devices
aplay -l
# my sound gets enabled when I play on device speaker-test -D plughw:1,7 -r 44100, after that the sounds starts to work. It's important to use the -r 44100 since the drivers are not setting up the correct frequency.
speaker-test -D plughw:1,3 -r 44100
speaker-test -D plughw:1,7 -r 44100
speaker-test -D plughw:1,8 -r 44100
speaker-test -D plughw:1,9 -r 44100
In case you want to make a permanent change for the hdmi sound as the deafult card you can update /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and change these lines:
defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
to this:
defaults.ctl.card NVidia
defaults.pcm.card Nvidia
defaults.pcm.device 7
ENDQUOTE
(note that in the original blog they used device 9. i found that i had to use device 7 and i have changed the instructions to reflect that. presumably this will be the case for other HD-ID11 users.)
this is all i had to do. i now have sound through HDMI to my tv system-wide
good luck
http://www.google.com/search?q=Zotac+Zbox+HD-11+&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADFA_en
http://www.zotacusa.com/forum/topic/2924-zbox-hd-id11-linux-no-hdmi-audio/
