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mtrokic

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2009-10-24

Posts: 56

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No sound with xf86-video-ati driver

Hello!

I have a system with an AMD HD6970 card. When I recently did a fresh install with the latest 3.0 kernel, I've noticed that if I use the proprietary catalyst drivers, my HDMI sound works well by passing the

radeon.audio=1

parameter to the kernel. However, when I use the xf86-video-ati driver my X works, but I have no sound.

I've issued

aplay -l

which says my card is 0 and device is 3. Naturally, I tried

aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front*

which executes ok, telling me that the files are being played, however, I still have no sound. Also, in alsamixer, the only toggle is the SPDIF and it's unmuted.

Any ideas on what might be happening?

Thanks in advance?

Last edited by mtrokic (2011-09-23 14:50:02)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: No sound with xf86-video-ati driver

Are you using

radeon.audio=1

with opensource drivers too?

mtrokic

Member

From: Montreal

Registered: 2009-10-24

Posts: 56

Website

Re: No sound with xf86-video-ati driver

Are you using

radeon.audio=1

with opensource drivers too?

Yes I am. I've tried taking it out but to no avail.