[mythtv-users] HDMI Nvidia card that just works? Audio too?

[Jongi]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:06 -0400, James Crow wrote:

> I have mine set to just alsa:default for the output device. I do not 
> have onboard HDMI, but a SPDIF header on the MB that is connected to the 
> addon video card. I am almost certain that you will need to have the 
> cable connected to the SPDIF header and the video card. Then just set 
> the output to ALSA:default. Your list of audio devices seems rather 
> small. I would expect to see several analog and the digital ones as 
> well. aplay -L lists 7 audio devices for me. One of them is iec958 (aka 
> SPDIF). You may need to upgrade your alsa, but I doubt it if you have 
> hdmi sound now. One one of my FE machines I had to add an option to the 
> hda-intel audio driver. Something like card=6-stack. Google should help 
> you figure out if you need an option.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
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the lack of analog devices was something that struck me as well. The
card=6-stack option is something I will probably have to investigate.

I am running Debian Sid with the below Alsa drivers installed

mythtv-debian:~# dpkg -l *alsa* | grep ii
ii  alsa-base                            1.0.21+dfsg-1              ALSA
driver configuration files
ii  alsa-source                          1.0.21+dfsg-1              ALSA
driver sources
ii  alsa-utils                           1.0.20-3                   ALSA
utilities
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                   0.10.24-1
GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libesd-alsa0                         0.2.41-5
Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared lib
ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa                 1.2.13-4+b1
Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa                      14.3.0-1                   SoX
alsa format I/O library

mythtv-debian:~# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.

The kernel SND options are as follows:

CONFIG_SND=m                                         
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m                                   
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m                                     
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m                                   
CONFIG_SND_JACK=y                                    
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m                               
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=m                               
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y                                 
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m                               
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m                                 
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y                         
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y                           
CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y                          
CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS=y                          
CONFIG_SND_VMASTER=y                                 
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m                              
CONFIG_SND_PCI=y                                     
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m                               
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y                               
CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y                            
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=y                          
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK=y                          
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y                        
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y                        
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y                     
CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y                                 
CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y                             
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m                                
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m                               

Anything that stands out?

Thanks
Jongi