Hi Jeanette, On Mon, Apr 18, 2022, Jeanette C. wrote: > Hi Joel, > this is more informed guess work, so take it with a pinch of salt, but it > maybe worth the effort. > > First try to create a plug device for your HDMI: > pcm.my_hdmi { > type plug > salve { plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 } > } > > Now create your !default with dmix: > pcm.!default { > type dmix > slave { my_hdmi } > } > > Perhaps you can even shorten it to putting the > plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 > inside the default dmix device. To review, the following plays through TV speakers: aplay tmh.wav -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 With the .asoundrc below, aplay tmh.wav results in: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:2079:(snd1_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) Unique IPC key is not defined aplay: main:830: audio open error: Invalid argument I get this same error even after specifying ipc_key in .asoundrc: pcm.hdmi_out { type plug ipc_key 5641 # inserting this line, and using various values doesn't help slave { plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 } } pcm.!default { type dmix slave { pcm "hdmi_out" } } > I know that getting all this to work with Firefox and GUI can be cumbersome. > Perhaps pulse might be in the way, but I know much less about Pulse than > ALSA. Still the plughw, which converts samplerates may help. I believe firefox will honor the !default setting. Thank you, Joel > Best wishes, > > Jeanette > -- > * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound > * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g > * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c > * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c > > I thought love was just a tingling of the skin <3 > (Britney Spears) > -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user