Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:14:37
Message-Id: 4D7798D5.7040102@genestate.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi by Matt Harrison
1 On 09/03/2011 12:55, Matt Harrison wrote:
2 > I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone
3 > bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION
4 > chipset.
5 >
6 > I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many
7 > MANY forum posts) should mean it is working, but no.
8 >
9 > Is there anyone here who has managed this? someone who would be willing
10 > to go through some things with me and get this working.
11 >
12 > The HDMI output shows up fine in "aplay -l" and "aplay -L", I can use
13 > speaker-test or aplay on the card/device with no errors. I've tried
14 > muting/unmuting everything in alsamixer (several analog related channels
15 > plus 3 s/pdifs).
16 >
17 > Analog audio works without problems but no matter what I try I cannot
18 > get HDMI working.
19 >
20 > I would be so grateful if someone could help, I'm literally about to
21 > throw it all out of the window thanks to all these smug ubuntu people
22 > saying how easy it was to get working :P
23 >
24 > Many thanks
25 >
26 > Matt
27 >
28
29 Just burned and booted the mythbuntu livecd. It detects everything but
30 the results are exactly the same as gentoo, no sound even though
31 everything looks fine.
32
33 I'm not sure if I should be thinking about RMAing this board. I guess I
34 should try windows on it first but I don't have any discs handy :/
35
36 Grateful for any other ideas.
37
38 Thanks