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sip03ds

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 21

Nvidia Mcp79 Hdmi - Alsa

Hello to everybody,

I recently bought an ASROCK ION 330BD in order to build a HTPC. After installing the latest image of x86_64 arch, I tried to configure it in order to playback HD content.

The PC is connected to the TV [Philips 32PFL9613D] via HDMI.  I tried the ALSA wiki in order to configure the card and installed the following packages:

- alsa-lib
- alsa-utils
- alsa-plugins
- alsa-oss
- ladspa
- swh-plugins

The modules show that they are loaded properly as:

[user@htpc ~]$ aplay -L
default:CARD=NVidia
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, VT1708S Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

and

[user@htpc ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

As ALSA wiki suggests, I tried:

% aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

and I still do not get sound.

I tried to switch the default device to HDMI via System Settings -> Multimedia in KDE, but KDE is reports that there is a problem and that the sound device is falling back to default.

I will appreciate any help.

Thanks

Last edited by sip03ds (2009-08-15 03:53:33)

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Re: Nvidia Mcp79 Hdmi - Alsa

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