RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:
> T.C,
>
> I am using gnome, but have kde and xfce installed - have not tried
> either of the two at this point.

Hmm, does /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop exist?  Not sure why
GNOME isn't autostarting it.

> Here is the output of rpm -qa '*pulseaudio*'
>
> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-2.fc15.x86_64
> wine-pulseaudio-1.3.33-1.fc16.x86_64
> kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.7-14.fc16.noarch
> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-2.fc15.i686
> wine-pulseaudio-1.3.33-1.fc16.i686
> pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
> pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64

That looks good.

> I was able to start pulse audio at the user's command line with
> 'pulseaudio --start' as well as start-pulseaudio-x11.   Neither of these
> commands resulted in the hdmi sound interface working.  The gui of the
> hdmi works fine.
>
> Here is the trail of the output of 'pacmd info' :
> [snipped output]

Unfortunately, that is missing the most important part:  the "sink
output" section.  That should indicate whether or not you're just a
simple pacmd argument away from working HDMI audio. :-)

Please provide the entire output.

>
> Thanks again for  your help!!!
>
> Greg

-T.C.