On Wednesday 2010-05-26 14:39, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > >> >There are definitely for the onboard sound, not for HDMI. >> >> The "SB" card has many more mixers (counting 10) and Windows XP also >> shows about that many for SB. But neither in Linux nor Windows does >> the SB card have any effect; I do have to turn the bars of the "HDMI" >> one. >> >> Abnormal, well. It's (semi-)embedded, what did you expect. > >Wow, then is the HDMI cable connected inside the device? Possibly. It looks quite embedded behind the casing - no recognizable connectors, just soldering and wiring onto headers. >Anyway, "IEC958 Playback Switch" should be turned on for HDMI. > > % amixer -c1 IEC958 on Well that does nothing. As there is no PCM channel for it, there is no /dev/snd/pcmC1*, and thus mplayer - or any other progarm - won't even try to output anything. >Another issue is that HDMI audio is always through the video chip, >thus the audio stuff is also controlled by the video driver. >IIRC, ATI fglrx has a certain level of support for HDMI audio, but not >sure about other drivers. In other words, the Samsung 320MXn2 is a €2000 brick. Time to return it. Thanks for your analysis, Jan _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
