On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:21 PM, John Ettedgui <john.ettedgui at gmail.com>wrote: > > > > 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. > > Here is the alsa-info. Thank you, John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131204/e8cc98ec/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: alsa-info.txt.QsPvare2zK Type: application/octet-stream Size: 29495 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131204/e8cc98ec/attachment-0001.obj>