On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Lee Revell<rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, VDR User<user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> My mainboard doesn't have HDMI out but it did come with an HDTV module >>> for HDTV output, could it still be that something in my xorg.conf is >>> missing that is causing this not to work? How can I tell (or could >>> you tell by my logs) if the codec registers are good? I'm not sure >>> how to proceed from here aside of buying a new mainboard. >> >> Anyone? Any suggestions at all? > > This probably cannot work in a headless environment. Thanks to DRM, > the video driver has to do some magic to make HDMI work. > > I assume your video card is Nvidia. Even though you plan to run > headless you probably have to set up X server with proprietary nvidia > driver to have any chance of this working. As I've said, my mainboard doesn't have HDMI, it has DVI. But I'm not using the on-board video anyway. I've got an Nvidia video card capable of vdpau which has SPDIF_IN so I'm going from the SPDIF_OUT on the mainboard into that. It's true that I have to have Xorg set up but that's all. No desktop/windows manager. The only software the box has installed is: Xorg, lirc, VDR, mplayer-nogui, Nvidia video drivers (of course!), xine-lib + vdr-xine. I have another box running the same setup (different mainboard though, where spdif IS working) and it runs great. The problem isn't what I'm trying to do, I already know the setup works fine. The problem is that alsa is broken for the chipset (AD1989a) on that mainboard since the exact same setup works on a different mainboard/chipset (ALC883). _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
