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jarrett

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From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

sound through HDMI does not work on eeebox eb1501p

So, as the topic states I can't get sound to work through HDMI.

aplay -l says:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

When trying to play a wav file:

aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

No errors, but no sound either, and this is true on all nvidia devices listed in aplay -l.

So what do I do next?

EDIT: The channels are all unmuted in alsamixer.

Last edited by jarrett (2011-12-17 23:20:26)

vbim0nk

Member

Registered: 2011-12-05

Posts: 19

Re: sound through HDMI does not work on eeebox eb1501p

On my laptop, I have to add "options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=0xffff,0xff2" to a modprobe.d conf file. You can try that.

sudo su
echo "options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=0xffff,0xff2" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf
exit

After that, restart and hopefully it will work.

Last edited by vbim0nk (2011-12-17 14:52:20)

jarrett

Member

From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

Re: sound through HDMI does not work on eeebox eb1501p

Hi,
Thanks for your input.
I found the answer to the problem myself before I saw your reply.
I took a different route however. I put this in /etc/asound.conf:

pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "dmix:1,7"
}

works great now...

Last edited by jarrett (2011-12-17 23:19:51)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,700

Re: sound through HDMI does not work on eeebox eb1501p

..works great now...

Please go ahead and edit your first post, edit the thread title and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread name.

Thanks.

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