Dear Kenneth, I am sorry not being able to help you further. Since I do not have a NVIDIA graphic card, I cannot comment on those failures. but linux hdmi nvidia as entries for a search should get you more information about what is going wrong and why. Hope you will succeed Bernhard Am Freitag, den 30.11.2012, 18:26 +1100 schrieb Kenneth Jones: > Hi Bernhard, > > Thanks for the reply. I've taken your advice and updated the Kernel to 3.6.6 > I've also reinstalled the latest v310 Nvidia Drivers, checked the > physical connection of my S/PDIF header and retested digital out > sound. > > Unfortunately still no luck. > > Still only the onboard analog and digital devices, and no digital > success, analog still works. > > Any more suggestions? > > Much Appreciated > > Kenneth > > On 28 November 2012 05:13, Bernhard Kleine <bernhard.kleine@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2012, 11:03 +1100 schrieb Kenneth Jones: > >> Well I'm stuck, so I thought I'd share my woes to see if anyone had a > >> magic trick i've missed. > >> > >> The short story: > >> My Storage Server / HTPC was getting a bit long in the tooth, so I > >> decided to update the distro from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 Desktop. > >> > >> This update happened without any issues, except that sound won't play > >> out the HDMI anymore. The HDMI being delivered by an Nvidia 8400 GS > >> card. > >> > >> Linux is not showing any Nvidia Audio devices, but some forums have > >> suggested this isn't the case with cards that don't have their own > >> Sound chip and instead passthrough audio from a cable plugged into the > >> motherboards S/PDIF header (which mine does). > >> > >> Audio DOES work through analog output. (I can plug headphones in and > >> get sound out) > >> > > > > Dear Kenneth > > the standard kernel on 12.04 is 3.2 and I had unconfirmed info that with > > this kernel there is no HDMI audio support. As shown in my mail from > > yesterday I added Kernel 3.6.6 and this obviously is supportive of HDMI. > > Whether this would be the case in your situation, I cannot judge since > > the NVidia cards have some specialities with respect to HDMI audio. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
