LUAVolume plug-in fails to load at boot time only

[avid]

Last week I added a 2nd audio card to my HTPC. I am very successfully controlling the choice of card for each app (TV, CD, etc) via SetWaveDev. However, whenever I restart the HTPC, Girder reports a "failed to load plugin" message. This occurs ONLY at boot time. If I subsequently exit and restart Girder, all is fine. By eliminating plugins one at a time, I have deduced the offender is LUAVolume.

I am running Girder 3.3.7.

Any ideas??

Brian

[Promixis]

Brian,

Are you running any scripts at start up?

It almost sounds like the system isn't ready for luavolume to start...?

[avid]

Mike,

Nope - no scripts at startup. But if I remove the LUAVolume DLL from the plugins folder, the alert does not appear. So it looks like the plugin's initilaisation is failing.

Brian

[avid]

Mike,

Any suggestions how to follow this one up?

I could attach a kernel debugger to allow me to capture tracing across the re-boot if that would help. But there is only any point in trying this if there is anything to capture.

Or any other ideas?

Brian

[Promixis]

i though ron tracked this one down..?

[avid]

Not that I heard. Ron??

[Ron]

Try delaying the loading of Girder, sometimes hardware/software has to initialize before Girder will fully work.

[avid]

Thanks Ron - I'll give that a go

Brian

[avid]

Yes - that worked.

Thanks again,

Brian

[Ron]

How much delay did you have to put in?

[avid]

My first attempt was 10 seconds. That is enough, so I haven't tried to shorten it. My machine reboots very rarely (the record is 2 months!)

Brian

[Promixis]

Brian,

You could also try the LoadPlugin / EnablePlugin settings from Lua

[avid]

Mike,

Yes, that would work too. But a 2 line batch file works today and I can't be bothered to get the most perfectly elegant solution !

Brian