I believe it is safe to say the the problem is fixed now. It turns out that xine corrupted asound.state in memory when it crashed. On shutdown the corrupted asound.state gets copied to /etc/asound.state. Then at boot /etc/asound.state gets copied back into memory. No matter how many times I deleted /etc/asound.state the corrupted version always came back. I had a backup copy of /etc/asound.state. I back up my important directories every night via rsync. /etc is one of those directories. When the problem first occurred I had the good sense to turn off auto backups. I grabbed the backup copy of /etc/asound.state placed it in /etc/asound.state.safe and did the following: alsactl -f /etc/asound.state.safe restore rebooted to make sure it stuck and I was good to go. Thanks for the help, Jon PS. bad xine ... bad FYI. Since I have a well thought out asound.conf I changed audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0 x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 to audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:default Hopefully this won't happen again Jon Boehm wrote: > Attaching output from aadebug. > > New info: > I did a test and changed the default from dmix-digital to dmix-analog > and the analog tv content made it to the headphone jack. Of course in > this test the digital pass thru is garbage. > > I've come to the conclusion that /etc/asound.conf is fine. They system > is responding to changes. I suspect the simple codecs?? have been blown > away. For example the bell doesn't play and *.wav files don't play. > Only AC-3/DTS passthrough works. > > I noticed that the default xine pass through port was > audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 > > I wonder if that hosed something up at a really low level. > > Thanks for helping, > Jon > > > Jon Boehm wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Everything been working great for quite a while. I use a spdif >> connection between my htpc and my receiver. I used dmix as my >> alsa:default thus passing analog and digital audio thru this >> connection. See the attached asound.conf. >> >> I was playing with xine tonight and at one point it popped up some >> message about not gaining access to the audio channel. Don't know if >> that was the cause of the problem but now my analog audio pass thru to >> the spdif connection is GONE!! The digital audio still works (hdtv >> and dvds.) But no analog source material works (analog tv recording.) >> Even the annoying system bell is busted. Its like my machine it >> totally ignoring the asound.conf. >> >> jboehm@catwomen:~$ /usr/bin/aplay -D default >> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav >> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit >> Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono >> But no sound comes out!!! >> >> jboehm@catwomen:~$ aplay -l >> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** >> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog] >> Subdevices: 1/1 >> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 >> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital] >> Subdevices: 1/1 >> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 >> >> >> jboehm@catwomen:~$ aplay -L >> front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> Front speakers >> surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers >> surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers >> surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers >> surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers >> surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Analog >> 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers >> iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel, ALC883 Digital >> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output >> null >> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) >> >> >> That -L output doesn't look right to me. It used to have pages of >> output. This makes me think something in my alsa configuration got >> hosed. >> >> Please help ... I'm panicking a little, >> Jon >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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