[namtih]

How did you install A5? Did you use the installer or the img file? If the img file, how did you transfer it to the SD card?

[g4v4g4i]

I did a fresh alpha 5 install and then:

Terminal

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

However, I get:

Terminal

$ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

In alpha 4 alsamixer was working flawless.

Some info from dmesg:

Terminal

$ dmesg | grep ALSA
[ 11.461775] bcm2835 ALSA card created!
[ 11.462020] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462171] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462312] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462453] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462614] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462773] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.465080] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
$ dmesg | grep bcm2835
[ 1.488660] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=700000 max=840000 cur=700000
[ 1.488799] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor performancebcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor performance
[ 11.461775] bcm2835 ALSA card created!
[ 11.462020] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462171] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462312] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462453] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462614] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.462773] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!
[ 11.465080] bcm2835 ALSA chip created!

This seems all fine. I used my raspberry with alsa in combination with mpd as a music server. In alpha 4 that worked fine.

Best!

[CurlyMo]

We have changed nothing that would prevent you from using alsa.

[markhiswords]

(26th Feb, 2013 09:41 PM)CurlyMo Wrote:  It seems that it's a bug in the hdmi_ignore_hotplug setting. So maybe removing it from your config.txt

Cheers, that fixed it!! Still very pleased with Xbian and the support, thanks guys!

[g4v4g4i]

(28th Feb, 2013 02:24 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  We have changed nothing that would prevent you from using alsa.

Note that I installed nothing else. I only did a sudo apt-get alsa-utils on a fresh alpha 5 card. Doing the same in alpha 4 would result in alsamixer loading.

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(28th Feb, 2013 02:24 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  We have changed nothing that would prevent you from using alsa.

OK, found the problem:

Terminal

$ more /etc/group | grep audio
audio:x:29:

As you can see, xbian is not member of the audio group.

Terminal

$ sudo adduser xbian audio

solves the problem and alsamixer is back. :-)

[BartOtten]

@anonimo200
I can only speak from my own experience and that is a fluid A5. Can you post the system load in idle situation from top?

[Koenkk]

@TarkaDaal
What model and brand SD card do you have?

[namtih]

(28th Feb, 2013 12:39 AM)Tommiiee Wrote:  I have the same problem and have no add-on called 'Artwork Downloader'.

It should be under System => Settings => Add-ons => Activate addons => services => Artwork Downloader

I think without it you wouldn't see any fanart at all. So it should be there and you should be able to configure the resolution.
But I only use XBMC since about 2months, so I could be wrong and there is another method

[rikardo1979]

(28th Feb, 2013 03:45 AM)namtih Wrote:  

(28th Feb, 2013 12:39 AM)Tommiiee Wrote:  I have the same problem and have no add-on called 'Artwork Downloader'.

It should be under System => Settings => Add-ons => Activate addons => services => Artwork Downloader

I think without it you wouldn't see any fanart at all. So it should be there and you should be able to configure the resolution.
But I only use XBMC since about 2months, so I could be wrong and there is another method

yes, this is wrong
you dont need any extra addon to scrape media informations.
All you need to do is when you add your source and you go to scan media into library you have to chose right scraper for download

for more info read Video library/Setting content and scanning

and more reading about Scrapers

[anonimo200]

@BartOtten
Errr, I'd but i don't know how to do it... I'm going to read http://forum.xbian.org/announcement-8.html and will try.
Thanks

[1mile]

i went back to alpha 4. for some reason on alpha 5 couldnt connect on wifi.

[Tommiiee]

There's nothing wrong with the scraper. It's just that the fan art is low quality, which was high in 1a4. Now that I think about it, the background isn't loaded at all, or is that only with movies?

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(28th Feb, 2013 04:15 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  

(28th Feb, 2013 03:45 AM)namtih Wrote:  

(28th Feb, 2013 12:39 AM)Tommiiee Wrote:  I have the same problem and have no add-on called 'Artwork Downloader'.

It should be under System => Settings => Add-ons => Activate addons => services => Artwork Downloader

I think without it you wouldn't see any fanart at all. So it should be there and you should be able to configure the resolution.
But I only use XBMC since about 2months, so I could be wrong and there is another method

yes, this is wrong
you dont need any extra addon to scrape media informations.
All you need to do is when you add your source and you go to scan media into library you have to chose right scraper for download

for more info read Video library/Setting content and scanning

and more reading about Scrapers

[rikardo1979]

hmm, not sure what are your settings but all is working just fine here. I have 1920*1080 out and all scraping just fine with fanarts etc under Movies
keep in mind that this is different than if you go to Videos>Files
many people get confused here
so you should have hi-res fanart under Movies and low-res under Video>files

can you confirm please ?

[Tommiiee]

Videos > Files: shows no fan art.
Movies: Low quality fan art.
TV Shows: Low quality fan art.

This problem did not occur with 1a4. It does with 1a5.

[rikardo1979]

Alpha 5 here, all good
weird..and you have nothing suspicious in logs ?
to be honest, not sure what may causing this..maybe your network connection ? what scraper did you use to scan your media with ?