[mythtv-users] No HDMI audio

[Allen Edwards]

2009/7/16 "José Tomás @ Chico" <jose.tomas at chico.mine.nu>

>  Hi!
>
> I have this issue almost a year, I'm living with it, but I want do get rid
> of...
> First I did thought that I didn't have sound on HDMI channel for some hw
> reason, since a colleague have it fine at first time when did install
> mythtv.
>
> I tried some suggestions by updating asound.conf, nevertheless I had no
> success.
>
> After some investigation I did found that my colleague did the installation
> having only hdmi connected, when I used VGA plus common jack out.
>
> So, in my case system is giving sound through the preferred out channel, I
> have to select on mythtv if I want to have on different out, when I need
> SPDIF simultaneous to HDMI and or with regular jack.
> Do anyone knows about examples for having sound on both channels through
> asound.conf editing?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> arc Tousignant wrote:
>
>
>
> Could one of you flesh this out so that I can make an addition to the wiki?
>  I don't really understand what is needed here.  Also, give me the relevant
> model numbers.
>
>
>
> Allen
>
>
> Allen,
>
>   Thanks for the great wiki article. I used it to set up my zotac board. My
> specific modifications are at:
> http://www.zoomthingie.com/wordpress/?p=161
>
> Nothing exciting, really. Just had to make a couple of small changes.
>
> I didn't take notes about the BIOS, but the BIOS has options for onboard
> sound. Internal, External, Both (and maybe Neither/Disabled?). HDMI sound
> requires _at least_ Internal, but I had to enable "Both".  It sounds like
> spdif/analog require at least External.  If I had to guess, I'd imagine
> "Internal" refers to the Nvidia HDA sound built onto the NV chipset, and
> maybe "External" refers to a chip that's on the motherboard, but "external"
> to the NV chipset. That's purely supposition though.
>
>
>
> I'm not at home atm, so I can't be more specific. If you have specific
> questions, I'm happy to give any info I've got.
>
> --Phill
>
>
>
> I’m not at home either at the moment and since  I don’t have a case for it
> yet, and I have a kitten, it is not in the entertainment center at the
> moment but instead in a closet when I am not at home lol. I’ll get more
> info for you later tonight.
>
> Like Phill said thou, I think it was under southbridge, I’ll confirm later,
> there was an option for internal and external, internal, external and
> neither(possibly disabled). The factory setting for me was to have both
> internal and external selected.
>
> I asked Phill for his kernel config options and I used them. I did look
> them over, but I didn’t think anything of the selected options for audio
> cause it was working for him.
>
> The one change that I had to make to get spdif audio was to make sure the
> config was set to “CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y“
>
> After enabling this and rebuilding the kernel my aplay –L had an iec958
> item and using this as my asound.conf gave me audio through the spdif.
>
>   pcm.!default {
>
>      type plug
>
>      slave.pcm "iec958"
>
>   }
>
>
>
> I get home after 8 eastern tonight but, if Phill hasen’t gotten back to you
> with the bios stuff etc, I will get you what you are asking for for the
> wiki.
>
> I am using the IONITX-C-U and Phill has the A-U version. Same thing
> different processors. He has dual core I have single.
>
>
>
> The next step for my setup is to narrow down the nfs permissions issue I am
> having and then work on configuring suspend to ram and wake on my remote.
>
> My first diskless frontend, and I will echo what others are saying, You
> can’t tell the damn thing is on it is so silent.
>
>
>
> Marc
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users at mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>
> --
>   *José Tomás*
>

All I know is in my wiki.  I just added two links to people solving this
problem so you might start there.

Allen
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20090716/9f2a1615/attachment.htm>