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#1 2023-02-18 17:03:35

Soyman
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[SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Hi, I just switched my gpu out for a 4090 and the hdmi output gives no sound.

I have done extensive troubleshooting which has resulted in the following:
The gpu and it's outputs are shown and configurable in pavucontrol but when they are selected, no sound is emitted from the selected device.
running

aplay -D hdmi:1,2 test.wav

or

aplay -D plughw:1,8 test.wav

works fine and gives sound output from the device.
I can get sound from any of the connected HDMI/DP devices using the same method.

The solution suggested in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133222 does not help.

I have also looked at the

/proc/asound/cardX/eld

files and everything seems to be fine.

Everything looks fine but the TV stays silent when stuff is playing.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Soyman (2023-03-03 13:45:18)

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#2 2023-02-19 14:09:14

Soyman
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

After further troubleshooting I have some updates.
I have two monitors and a TV connected to the computer. One of the monitors has built in speakers.
The speakerless screen has been assigned the identifier hw:1,3 the monitor with speakers has the id hw:1,7 and the TV has the id hw:1,8
At some points I have been able to play sound through whichever device I wanted using aplay or speaker-test.

At another point any HDMI output device selected within pulseaudio would cause sound to come from hw:1,7.
I tried removing hw:1,7 and connecting the TV(via a HDMI to DP dongle) to the same port such that it received the id hw:1,7 but sound still did not come from the TV.
After that I reverted to the initial output port arrangement.

At a later point aplay only caused sound to come from hw:1,7 as well even if explicitly asking for hw:1,8 or even hw:1,9 (which doesn't exist, that made the output glitchy though).

As I mentioned, the solution suggested in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133222 where instead of udev (I believe) detecting the outputs of the gpu, I explicitly made hw:1,8 be the only output of the gpu, didn't work.
I haven't really changed any significant pulseaudio configuration besides trying that solution. I have since reverted that change.

I'm not shure that the issue is hardware related so feel free to move the thread to another forum.

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#3 2023-02-19 14:10:52

Soyman
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Also, everything works fine on windows with no issues or configuration required. Therefore the hardware is likely not faulty.

The GPU is a 4090 and the TV is an LG B1 if that is relevant.

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#4 2023-02-24 09:45:14

walkingstickfan
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Although I'm not having issues under Arch Linux, the 0.4.11-5 upgrades to libwireplumber-0.4-0 and wireplumber under Debian Unstable apparently conflicts with pulseaudio; ref. Debian Bug Report #1021530. When I upgraded both packages, I lost all audio and YouTube videos would not play.

It may be worth your effort to try using pipewire as your audio server, using the Arch Wiki and/or this post on LinuxConfig.org as a guide(s).


Arch Linux with Openbox & Tint2

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#5 2023-02-24 20:08:02

Soyman
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Thank you very much for this suggestion. Pipewire seems like just the thing to try. I'll report if this fixes the issue.

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#6 2023-03-03 13:44:55

Soyman
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Switching over to pipewire created a Pro Audio setting in pavucontrol which exposed a working link to the correct output device. The issue is resolved.

I am experiencing a lot of strange computer behavior following this change but there might be other causes.

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#7 2023-04-21 21:27:22

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

I had issues with crashing and there was strong correlation between using pipewire and the computer crashing. I didn't do a statistical analysis to figure out with certainty if the correlation was strong but I did notice that the computer crashed regularly while I ran pipewire and much less frequently using pulseaudio.

Therefore I tried pulseaudio again and managed to solve this issue using this guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseA … figuration

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#8 2023-04-22 01:24:33

walkingstickfan
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Re: [SOLVED] No sound coming from HDMI under Pulseaudio

Interesting...I've had no issues with replacing pulseaudio with pipewire on either of my computers, both running Debian Stable, Debian Unstable, and Arch Linux.


Arch Linux with Openbox & Tint2

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