Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Curiosity...
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:39:11
Message-Id: ii18ma$ln0$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Curiosity... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 01/29/2011 04:18 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > lspci -k of those device/chips/whatever does say for the nvidia audio:
3 >
4 > 08:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
5 > Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 2304
6 > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
7 > Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
8 >
9 > but...for what reason there is an audio device in my graphics card?
10 > Sounds to me like a bicycle with onboard toaster... ;)
11
12 Graphics cards have audio chips for HDMI sound. When you connect the
13 graphics card to a TV through HDMI, the sound playing in the TV comes
14 from the graphics card's audio chip.