No HDMI audio with nvidia driver?

[Tom Horsley]

As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in
my system:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that
it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes
out on a sound test.

If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I
do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver
just can't do audio yet?

Another weird thing is that aplay -L lists the built in
intel audio S/PDIF:

iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

But gnome-control-center no longer sees it as an output
option, so I can't get audio by going through my receiver
either.

Any of this sound familiar? (I'll be taking the nvidia
card out soon, so I'm not really looking to try and fix
any of this, but I thought I'd mention the weirdnesses :-).

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in
> my system:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
>
> The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that
> it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes
> out on a sound test.
>
> If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I
> do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver
> just can't do audio yet?
>
> Another weird thing is that aplay -L lists the built in
> intel audio S/PDIF:
>
> iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital
>     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
>
> But gnome-control-center no longer sees it as an output
> option, so I can't get audio by going through my receiver
> either.
>
> Any of this sound familiar? (I'll be taking the nvidia
> card out soon, so I'm not really looking to try and fix
> any of this, but I thought I'd mention the weirdnesses :-).
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Torvalds quotes that Nvidia is one of one of the worst companies that
we deal with, even swore and flipped a middle finger toward the
company; my suggestion (a political scientist, not an educated
computer user) is go inside and flip out the Nvidia card for one that
Linux does support.

my 2 cents...

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Richard Vickery
 wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> > As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in
> > my system:
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
> > 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
> >
> > The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that
> > it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes
> > out on a sound test.
> >
> > If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I
> > do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver
> > just can't do audio yet?
> >
> > Another weird thing is that aplay -L lists the built in
> > intel audio S/PDIF:
> >
> > iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
> >     HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital
> >     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> >
> > But gnome-control-center no longer sees it as an output
> > option, so I can't get audio by going through my receiver
> > either.
> >
> > Any of this sound familiar? (I'll be taking the nvidia
> > card out soon, so I'm not really looking to try and fix
> > any of this, but I thought I'd mention the weirdnesses :-).
> > --
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>
> Torvalds quotes that Nvidia is one of one of the worst companies that
> we deal with, even swore and flipped a middle finger toward the
> company; my suggestion (a political scientist, not an educated
> computer user) is go inside and flip out the Nvidia card for one that
> Linux does support.
>
> my 2 cents...

Forgive me if the above message was sent in HTML versus text; I was
unaware if I had the setting correct.

Cheers,

Richard

[poma]

On 09.06.2013 23:05, Tom Horsley wrote:
> As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in
> my system:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
>
> The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that
> it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes
> out on a sound test.

$ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink|Mute'
Sink #0
    Mute: yes

$ pactl set-sink-mute 0 0

$ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink|Mute'
Sink #0
    Mute: no

man 1 pactl
> If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I
> do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver
> just can't do audio yet?

Well then, does it work or not!? :)
It seems that you are mixing up Nvidia blob and Nouveau, in a way the
second one wasn't mentioned, at all. Gee!
And you know, they are both binary for use. :)
Besides HDMI audio with the assistance of the 'nouveau.ko' *do* work.

poma

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:17:13 +0200
poma wrote:
> Well then, does it work or not!? :)
> It seems that you are mixing up Nvidia blob and Nouveau, in a way the

Sorry - should have said nouveau gives no sound.
It was definitely not muted, the device really did
think it could talk HDMI, but "test speakers" would
never generate as much as a grunt.

With akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion installed, using
nvidia instead of nouveau, I got HDMI sound without
needing to tweak anything - it just worked.

Thankfully, my original experiment is over and
I have now removed the nvidia card :-).

No HDMI audio with nvidia driver? - HDMI audio Nouveau OK!

[poma]

…
> $ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink|Mute'
> Sink #0
>    Mute: yes
>
> $ pactl set-sink-mute 0 0
>
> $ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink|Mute'
> Sink #0
>    Mute: no
>
> man 1 pactl

…
> Besides HDMI audio with the assistance of the 'nouveau.ko' *do* work.

To conclude,

http://goo.gl/ETNFL ;)

'pavucontrol' - PulseAudio "Volume Control"
repoquery -i pavucontrol

'paplay' - CLI audio player for a PulseAudio sound server
man 1 paplay - pulseaudio-utils

poma