Geforce 210 HDMI no Sound [Solved - kinda]

[mpmills]

I know that my PNY Geforce card will play sound via HDMI, the problem is that it wont. When I play it over the live dvd it plays fine, and if I load Microsoft XP/WIN7 it plays as well. But for some reason its not now...

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mediamachine millsm # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


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mediamachine millsm # lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)
03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
mediamachine millsm #


Im not sure how to correct this.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Have you run PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) as a normal user and reconfigured the Profile (Configuration tab), Input Devices, Output Devices, Recording and Playback? Apart from selecting the appropriate Profile on the Configuration tab, on the other tabs make sure that none of the channels are muted and that the channels' volume is turned up. If pavucontrol is not already installed, you can install it using the Entropy package manager.

Moving this thread to the Hardware shed (forum).

[mpmills]

pulse audio control is installed. in the volume control under system sound its at 100% but has a red X on it.

[Fitzcarraldo]

You mean 'System Sounds' on the 'Playback' tab of PulseAudio Volume Control? The 'System Sounds' tab controls the acknowledgement and warning sounds your desktop environment makes, not the output of multimedia applications. The audio settings for the latter are controlled on the 'Output Devices' tab. But, first of all, you need to check what is configured on the 'Configuration' tab. I assume you have two configurable Profiles on the 'Configuration' tab: one for HDMI audio and the other for analogue audio? Is the Profile for 'Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output' (or whatever it is: I don't have your hardware) set to 'On', and the Profile for 'Internal Audio' set to 'Off'? Try changing those.

If you have not already done it, the other thing I suggest -- in case something has changed in ALSA -- would be to run alsaconf as the root user, and set up the sound card again. Then run alsamixer and make sure all the sound channels are turned up and un-muted. It only takes a few minutes and won't do any harm.

[mpmills]

I follow you up until alsaconf, because the sound is ran thru the HDMI on the video card would this be under alsaconf?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Should still be picked up by alsaconf, yes. Try it and see.

[mpmills]

it doesnt find anything.


a1410n millsm # aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Fitzcarraldo]

When you say "it doesn't find anything", are you referring to alsaconf? What exactly was the output?

[mpmills]

no supported PnP or PCI card found.
Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

ISA comes up the same and it quits, I disabled the onboard HD sound, thus I did this in Win7 and got sound thru HDMI

[Fitzcarraldo]

What do you see when you run alsamixer and press F6? Can you select anything? Is anything muted?