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SGulseth

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Registered: 2010-11-21

Posts: 2

HDMI Sound with Sapphire RADEON HD 5450

Hey guys, just installed Arch for my desktop computer, and I am having some troubles to get the HDMI sound to work. I have tried the xf86-video-ati driver, and I have tried to install the catalyst package from AUR, but its complaining about the catalyst-utils package even I have installed the package. So, is there anyone who have successfully gotten the sound to work with HDMI and the ATI driver? PS. I alsa have a Radeon HD 4200 on my motherboard, but are not using it.

When I use "aticonfig --initial" to generate my xorg.conf I get the following error:

(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When I use "X -configure" to generate my xorg.conf, it finds the screen and the driver, but sound are not working.

lspci - http://pastebin.com/ERvjDvR6
Xorg.conf generated with "aticonfig --initial" - http://pastebin.com/Mi9jTncr
Xorg.conf generated with "X -configure" - http://pastebin.com/1bDrARAi

"aplay -l" produces:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have tried all of them, none outputs any sound.

xvello

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Registered: 2010-05-15

Posts: 81

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Re: HDMI Sound with Sapphire RADEON HD 5450

Hello

HDMI audio does not have anything to do with Xorg configuration, no need to reconfigure it. Just use the default radeon driver.
Look with alsamixer on cards 1 and 2 if output isn't muted. Then try again aplay on these outputs.

SGulseth

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Registered: 2010-11-21

Posts: 2

Re: HDMI Sound with Sapphire RADEON HD 5450

Card 1 and 2 have only a S/PDIF controller, but card 0 has pcm, master, etc. None of them are muted.

Crozepp

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From: Basque Country

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 42

Re: HDMI Sound with Sapphire RADEON HD 5450

Hi.

The only easy way I found to make hdmi audio work and  on my 4850 was with pulseaudio applet (gnome-media-pulse) and the open radeon drivers (xf86-video-ati). With catalyst I can't, even in windows. Anyway radeon driver doesn't support your card yet  " http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature  ".

Before this, I remember that with smplayer I could select the hdmi audio driver and it worked.