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On 03/30/2012 09:34 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> walt writes: |
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>> 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek |
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>> HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo |
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>> Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel |
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>> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel |
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>> 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia |
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>> Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 |
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>> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel |
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>> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel |
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> Probably those are HDMI and 'normal' device. I had similar problems on my |
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> sister's PC. |
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First, thanks to all who replied. All the answers were helpful and the |
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lightbulb is slowly getting brighter :) |
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I finally looked up HDMI on Wikipedia. Software is driven by hardware |
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and this new machine is the only HDMI equipment I've ever used, so I |
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never had any need to understand it before now. |
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Now it's clear to me why there are two different sound devices on this |
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machine -- HDMI is a completely different animal and needs different |
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harware and drivers. So, thanks for clearing that up for me. Maybe |
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someday I'll actually want to use the HDMI hardware for something ;) |
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> My solution was to edit /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, and change |
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> defaults.ctl.card and defaults.pcm.card from 0 to 1. |
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I must have the syntax wrong in my alsa.conf, but I finally edited |
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/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and changed the default values to 1. Now |
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alsamixer comes up with the right mixer displayed, thanks. |
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All apps but audacious still use the wrong mixer/card in spite of |
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the new defaults, though. |
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I'm finally understanding the value of pulseaudio as a side-effect of |
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buying this new computer. Now I'm recompiling everything with the |
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pulse useflag, something I thought I'd never do :/ |
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I think I can use pulse to solve this problem IIUC. Here goes :) |