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AlexanderHolmgaard

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Registered: 2014-11-18

Posts: 57

Trouble with HDMI Sound output

I am having some trouble switching to HDMI Sound when I insert the cable. It is like it randomly detects it or does not, so a lot of the times I have to logout and login again before it will appear. That said, the logout/login works every time and the sound also works perfectly.
Still, I find it very annoying that I have to do this so often, so I was wondering if anyone has encountered the same problem, or have some suggestions on how to make this work?
Please let me know if I can post anything to help solve this

Thanks in advance!

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 624

Re: Trouble with HDMI Sound output

Do you use KDE and have at least 2 sound cards/sound oputputs? Also, do you use alsa?

AlexanderHolmgaard

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Registered: 2014-11-18

Posts: 57

Re: Trouble with HDMI Sound output

No, I am using GNOME. Not sure how many sound cards, but I am pretty sure I have two (one for HDMI and one "regular"). Is there a way to check?
I am not sure about alsa.. Tried to run "alsamixer", but it wasn't found, so I must not have it. I don't what GNOME uses for sound management as default.

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 283

Re: Trouble with HDMI Sound output

Hello,

These might be of interest to you, if not working out of the box they should atleast get you on the right track:

http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comme … dmi_audio/
http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~trice/linux/tricks/hdmi/
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.se/2014/02 … o-out.html

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2015-02-11 13:03:32)