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HotFudgeCakes

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Registered: 2015-07-14

Posts: 6

No HDMI sound output

I just installed Arch, and got everything (mostly) to work.

I didn't install pulseaudio or any other package that would modify the audio drivers (Besides catalyst, but it doesn't seem like CCC has any sound menus)
I tried the fix on the wiki, it didn't work. In fact, I got the sound output to work before then, but chromium/youtube wouldn't output any sound. I haven't tried using the html5 player yet, but I doubt that would help, as

aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

doesn't output any sound anymore. Here's what aplay -l outputs:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: P780 [Plantronics GameCom 780], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

My .asoundrc is as follows:

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
    device 3
}

And just for the sake of being thorough, here's what "lspci | grep Audio" outputs:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]

Thanks in advance!

HotFudgeCakes

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Registered: 2015-07-14

Posts: 6

Re: No HDMI sound output

aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

That now plays sound, but youtube still doesn't have any sound :\
I've installed steam, and will see if any games can produce any sound.

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: No HDMI sound output

Just FYI, I also use a Radeon card (HD 5450) for HDMI video and audio, and it seems like every other Linux kernel release the HDMI audio just stops working correctly. HDMI audio does NOT work for me with the current 4.1.2-2 Linux package, so I downgraded to 4.0.7-2 and of course it works fine again.

HotFudgeCakes

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Registered: 2015-07-14

Posts: 6

Re: No HDMI sound output

Just FYI, I also use a Radeon card (HD 5450) for HDMI video and audio, and it seems like every other Linux kernel release the HDMI audio just stops working correctly. HDMI audio does NOT work for me with the current 4.1.2-2 Linux package, so I downgraded to 4.0.7-2 and of course it works fine again.

Yeah, the sound works now too! but now its really staticy when playing youtube videos, anyone got a fix?