>>>> 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. >>>> >>> How many hdmi , dvi or display port connectors do your card have ? Specification seem support up to 6 displays >>> >>> 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. >> >>> >>> >>> Is there any reason for you to disable on-board hda controller and alc888 as you don't have any capture device anymore ? pactl list Do pulseaudio server select null sink or hdmi.monitor as the default source ? >>>> 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. >> >> > Here is the alsa-info. > strange that all jacks return true control.1 { iface CARD name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Jack' value true comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } } ... control.31 { iface CARD name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=11 Jack' value true comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } } cat /proc/asound/card0/eld#*.0 does your hdmi montior name appear in one of the six eld [ 5.468413] [drm] Connector 2: [ 5.468414] [drm] HDMI-A-1 [ 5.468415] [drm] HPD1 Does the graphic driver show which hdmi monitor connect to which ports in system log ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131205/075d7e7b/attachment.html>