HOWTO: Installing XBMC on a Acer Revo R3600 with Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:38:25 +0000

Yesterday out of a sudden, the sound on my Acer Revo stopped working. Don’t ask me why, I didn’t update anything in between New Years eve and today. Just no sound. Tried removing my .asoundrc, tried rebooting, tried powering off; but nothing worked.

Since the Revo was running Jaunty Jackalope, I decided to reinstall the box (yeah, yet again) – but this time with Karmic Koala. Took this forums post and this blog entry as pointer (ie what needed to be installed), and started from there. And guess what … after finishing all that, changing the settings in XBMC – tada sound works. After finishing, I turned the box off and then back on, booted to the “old” installation – guess what .. Sound is working again. I really don’t have a single clue as to why the heck the sound stopped working and the started working without any doing, but I’m glad :-P

Jaunty-Jackalope on BAFM

HOWTO: Installing XBMC on a Acer Revo R3600 with Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic