<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">>> >> >> > May I piggy-back a related question here? On my FE/BE dual boot,<br>
>> >> >> > I<br>
>> >> >> > have<br>
>> >> >> > to<br>
>> >> >> > unplug the cord from the headphone jack on the PC to get audio on<br>
>> >> >> > Windows,<br>
>> >> >> > (it can stay plugged into the TV) and plug it back in for Ubuntu.<br>
>> >> >> > I<br>
>> >> >> > have<br>
>> >> >> > HDMI out of PC and HDMI into TV. Audio should work on the HDMI for<br>
>> >> >> > both<br>
>> >> >> > scenario's shouldn't it?<br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> I am a bit confused.... are you saying that plugging in your<br>
>> >> >> headphones mutes the HDMI in windows, but not in Ubuntu?<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> > It's a 1/8" stereo patch cord from audio in on my TV going to the<br>
>> >> > audio<br>
>> >> > out<br>
>> >> > (aka headphone jack) of my PC. But yeah, when I unplug it from the PC<br>
>> >> > I<br>
>> >> > get<br>
>> >> > sound in windows (I assume through the HDMI) then I have to plug it<br>
>> >> > back<br>
>> >> > in<br>
>> >> > to get sound in Ubuntu. I would rather stay with Ubuntu but if I have<br>
>> >> > to<br>
>> >> > switch (LG's blu-ray not supported in linux) it would be nice to have<br>
>> >> > HDMI<br>
>> >> > audio in both cases.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Most likely you just need to change your default audio device in<br>
>> >> Ubuntu to your video card's HDMI port. I don't have an Ubuntu box in<br>
>> >> front of me (just mythbuntu), but if you look in the audio<br>
>> >> configuration panels, you should find something. Assuming your system<br>
>> >> has drivers for the video card's sound capabilities.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I have two options in sound output, analog and digital, neither function<br>
>> > with the patch cord unplugged and only the analog works with the cord<br>
>> > in.<br>
>> > There was a disk with the video card for windows. Any idea how I could<br>
>> > find<br>
>> > software for Ubuntu?<br>
>><br>
>> Typically, you will want to stick with the drivers available in the<br>
>> Ubuntu repositories. If your card has any vendor created drivers<br>
>> available, you should find them in the "Additional Drivers" app.<br>
>> Typically Ubuntu will inform you with a popup that vendor provided<br>
>> drivers are available for your card.<br>
>><br>
>> While in most cases, the open source drivers are adequate... however<br>
>> advanced features of the card are often only possible with the binary<br>
>> drivers from the vendor. For licensing reasons, most distros don't<br>
>> install these by default.<br>
>><br>
>> What video card do you have?<br>
>><br>
>> It is also possible that the outputs your seeing are only showing one<br>
>> of the cards.... you may have to do something to switch cards to see<br>
>> the other device's outputs.<br>
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> I believe that it is a MSI R5450 series VGA/HDMI/DVI 1Gb card. Searching for<br>
> additional drivers shows four options, three of which are "experimental<br>
> beta" the forth is (post-release updates) and looking at this again reminds<br>
> me that I looked here a while back, tried one? option that failed miserably<br>
> and I ended up wiping and reinstalling 12.04/64. The post-release should be<br>
> OK, do you think? Is there a way to just un install that driver, instead of<br>
> the earlier drastic solution? As I recall the screen was rendered useless<br>
> last time, I would probably only be able to get a terminal from a live CD<br>
> boot, didn't think of that then.<br>
><br>
> Daryl<br>
<br>
</div></div>If it fails, you can still get to a console. The graphics drivers are<br>
only used in X... just Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2,F3,F4...) to open a terminal<br>
session. F7 is your X session.<br>
<br>
Often all you need to do if it fails is rename you xorg.conf (mv<br>
/etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak) to clear the settings out<br>
of it... X11 should properly detect the settings and work fine.<br>
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<div> 3D-accelerated proprietary graphics driver for ATI cards.</div><div><br></div><div>This driver is required to fully utilise the 3D potential of some ATI graphics cards, as well as provide 2D acceleration of newer cards.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All this talk of 3D and 2D acceleration, do you think there is underlying audio benefits in there somewhere?</div><div><br></div><div>Daryl</div></div><br></div></div>