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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Juanmol<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My aplay –l and aplay –L for the nvidia card are exactly the same as yours. On one tv the audio accepted is PCM and comes out on ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1, you can see that in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[mythtv@myhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card1/eld#1.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>monitor_present 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>eld_valid 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>monitor_name TSB-TV<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>connection_type HDMI<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>eld_version [0x2] CEA-861D or below<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>edid_version [0x3] CEA-861-B, C or D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>manufacture_id 0x6252<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>product_id 0x203<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>port_id 0x20000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>support_hdcp 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>support_ai 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>audio_sync_delay 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>speakers [0x0]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad_count 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad0_coding_type [0x1] LPCM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad0_channels 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad0_rates [0xe0] 44100 48000 88200<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad0_bits [0xe0000] 16 20 24<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>the audio device in the frontend is ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The mixer is labelled software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>All the other elds show nothing. On my other ion2 system that goes to dev 7 and it shows under a different eld. That is 7.1 audio to my marantz receiver. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So you should check if any of your elds show anything, making sure the tv is on before you boot the linux box. I was able to use either speakertest or apaly with that device. I did not have to do anything complicated. This box is running alsa 0.23 on arch linux. The other mythbuntu with alsa 0.24. I am running the latest trunk in mythtv.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Did you do anything special with your xorg file. I would make a copy and run xconfig-nvidia and start from there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HTH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>James </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>