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| From | buck <buck@private.mil> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS |
| Date | 2012-01-21 19:23 +0000 |
| Organization | Say What? |
| Message-ID | <jff3ap0rer@news2.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
| References | <jfcilf022or@news4.newsguy.com> <jfcj78$8q0$1@news.albasani.net> |
root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote in news:jfcj78$8q0$1@news.albasani.net: > buck <buck@private.mil> wrote: >> I suppose I could test this by installing XP on a hard drive to see >> what XP does with it... >> >> Does anyone know if the PNY VCG84512D3SPPB video card will produce >> sound on the monitor when connected via an HDMI cable? >> >> It does not for me when the proprietary NVIDIA 290.10 drivers are >> loaded, but I wonder if that's because I've messed up. >> >> If it matters, this video card is PCI, not Express. >> -- >> buck > > > I wish you the best of luck. Post here if you succeed. Well, "success" is relative... In order to find out if the NVidia card had sound, I installed XP Pro SP2 on a spare HD. The MoBo is Intel with onboard sound. At first, I thought the Intel audio drivers had failed because Device Manager had "?" for several lines of sound devices, so I downloaded the most recent drivers from Intel for this MoBo. No Joy; still "?". Because onboard sound isn't important to me, I installed the NVidia DVD, which added the drivers for BOTH the sound and video. Since I like it, I downloaded and ran Media Player Classic and VOILA, my movie (Halfblood Prince) is displayed with audio, and the monitor volume works as expected. So far, I have had no success in moving the subtitles below the picture, which is discouraging. But not as discouraging as having to run WinBLOWS to play DVD movies! What is REALLY discouraging is all the freakin' reboots required to install XP. This setup took several hours to accomplish and it is just a throwaway, needed only to prove/disprove an audio device on the video card. I suppose it is A Good Thing that I heard the HDMI monitor's speakers at every stinking reboot??? Thus encouraged, I forged ahead with the Linux setup. At the end of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/html/audiosupport.html I found a link to a very thorough - to the point of tedious - explanation: gpu-hdmi-audio.html Using that, I found that my NVidia audio was the second device, so I created /etc/asound.conf containing pcm.!default hdmi:NVidia to set it as the default sound card, and restarted alsa. alsamixer found the device and allowed me to unmute all 4 S/PDIFs, and showed me that the onboard Intel audio was now the second device. This was "necessary" because it is A Royal Pain to configure VLC or mplayer to use a non-default sound card. For those who use gpu-hdmi-audio.html, do be careful to note the difference between the upper and lower case "L" in the "aplay -l" / "aplay -L" references. I stumbled here <shrug>. At least I didn't forget to run alsactl store after unmuting. Still following gpu-hdmi-audio.html, speaker-test showed that only one of the 4 DEVs produced sound, but now I do get white noise from each of the 2 stereo speakers - which is my "relative success" to this point. When running aplay tada.wav the resulting display complains that the sampling rate is too low, and sound is garbled. Having no other .wav file to test with, I shrugged that off. Using mplayer, Halfblood Prince displays beautifully and I can turn on subtitles, but there is no audio. DAMN. I'll see if changes to .mplayer/config in my home directory help, but I've given up for now. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've spent all the time I can afford for now, so I'm keeping the dual boot and using XP to play movies. fsck. -- buck
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HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-20 20:26 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 20:35 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-20 21:10 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 21:41 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 21:49 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-20 22:47 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:07 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2012-01-20 22:50 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:12 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:25 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-21 16:05 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 18:29 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 18:40 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-21 21:43 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 23:55 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 01:14 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-22 03:23 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 04:04 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-01-22 13:02 +0100
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 14:54 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-22 17:41 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-22 17:55 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 18:07 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 18:02 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-01-22 20:01 +0100
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-21 19:23 +0000
Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-01-21 11:34 -0800
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