On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I just changed my RadeonHD 4670 for a 7870, and now when I type "aplay >> -l" I get many HDMI codecs instead of just one like for the previous card. >> >> I think this confuses PulseAudio and I get no sound... (with previous >> card it worked all fine). >> >> >> > you have to provide output of alsa-info.sh > > I will do that thank you, just need to get back on that machine. > some graphic card use the motherboard internal spdif out connector for > audio > which don't support jack detection > Oh interesting, but I was just using the standard HDMI connector of the VGA card without connecting my card to the motherboard by more than PCI-E. Also, spdif would not get me 6 channels in LCPM, so I don't think that was it but I could be wrong. > > http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-032871.htm > > > >> >> When I type "aplay -L" I get one more codec that I can see it in the >> pavucontrol profile (not sure which one as the names are irrelevant) >> >> >> if in default.pa I specify the alsa sink device=hw:0,3 directly, I do >> get sound, but then in pavucontrol I do not get the advanced sub-menu >> anymore which makes me think something is not working properly... >> >> For now I have settled on this hack instead: >> >> >> I changed the extra-hdmi.conf in >> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets file to : >> >> [Mapping hdmi-surround-extra0] >> description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 0) >> device-strings = hdmi:%f,0 >> paths-output = hdmi-output-0 >> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe >> priority = 1 >> direction = output >> >> [Mapping hdmi-surround-extra3] >> description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) >> device-strings = hdmi:%f,0 >> paths-output = hdmi-output-3 >> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe >> priority = 1 >> direction = output >> >> I only need one of these two, somehow they both work... >> >> Now everything works for me, but since it's not out of the box, I am >> guessing there might be something out there to fix. >> >> >> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda?id=5a61358433b1f89b500f2c365746c73cb7a27e2f > > Hmmm I am not sure what you meant by that. Thank you! I will follow up with the alsa info. John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131202/57ec6810/attachment-0001.html>
