On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in >> my system: >> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) >> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) >> >> The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that >> it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes >> out on a sound test. >> >> If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I >> do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver >> just can't do audio yet? >> >> Another weird thing is that aplay -L lists the built in >> intel audio S/PDIF: >> >> iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 >> HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital >> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output >> >> But gnome-control-center no longer sees it as an output >> option, so I can't get audio by going through my receiver >> either. >> >> Any of this sound familiar? (I'll be taking the nvidia >> card out soon, so I'm not really looking to try and fix >> any of this, but I thought I'd mention the weirdnesses :-). >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > Torvalds quotes that Nvidia is one of one of the worst companies that > we deal with, even swore and flipped a middle finger toward the > company; my suggestion (a political scientist, not an educated > computer user) is go inside and flip out the Nvidia card for one that > Linux does support. > > my 2 cents... Forgive me if the above message was sent in HTML versus text; I was unaware if I had the setting correct. Cheers, Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
