[Alsa-user] HDMI progress update was: HDMI port undetected

2009-11-09 Thread Igor Gueths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all. I have done some additional looking into this, and have since figured out two things. First, NVidia uses S/PDIF passthru for most of their HDMI audio output. Consequently, this has led me to determine that my S/PDIF output was not working via

Re: [Alsa-user] HDMI port undetected

2009-11-09 Thread Igor Gueths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Jason. On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Hi Igor, > > On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 13:13 -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi all. I have since managed to figure out my headphone issues; however, the > > HDMI port, presumab

[Alsa-user] Limited / No Audio on Alienware m17x

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Kelly
Hi All, I've recently acquired an Alienware M17X. This has surround sound onboard using an onboard nvidia sound card that's based on the HDA Intel. I've got Ubuntu Karmic installed on it (via a 9.04 dist-upgrade). I had no success at all with the included alsa version 1.0.20 so last night I got t

Re: [Alsa-user] HDMI port undetected

2009-11-09 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi Igor, On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 13:13 -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I have since managed to figure out my headphone issues; however, the > HDMI port, presumably coming off my NVidia GTX280M card, doesn't get detected > by > the snd_hda_intel driver. What are the contents of /proc/asound/car

Re: [Alsa-user] HDMI port undetected

2009-11-09 Thread Matt Snow
I have the exact same problem right now but with an MSI nvidia 9400GT card. definitely would love to see a response to this thread. :) ..Matt On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Igor Gueths wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi all. I have since managed to figure out

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with no simple controls

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Erwin
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:26:22 +0100 Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Greg Erwin wrote: > > $ amixer -c1 contents > > ... > > numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Switch' > > ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1 > > amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument > > It fails to read the c

[Alsa-user] HDMI port undetected

2009-11-09 Thread Igor Gueths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all. I have since managed to figure out my headphone issues; however, the HDMI port, presumably coming off my NVidia GTX280M card, doesn't get detected by the snd_hda_intel driver. I have tried compiling the modules for all available HDMI codecs,

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with no simple controls

2009-11-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Greg Erwin wrote: > $ amixer -c1 contents > ... > numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Switch' > ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1 > amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument It fails to read the current value of the control. Is there a message in the system log when this

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with no simple controls

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Erwin
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:38:16 +0100 Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Greg Erwin wrote: > > I have an M-Audio Jamlab usb sound card. It works, but It doesn't > > seem to have any simple controls: > > > > $amixer -c1 controls > > numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' > > numid=2,iface=MIXER,name=

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with no simple controls

2009-11-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Greg Erwin wrote: > I have an M-Audio Jamlab usb sound card. It works, but It doesn't seem > to have any simple controls: > > $amixer -c1 controls > numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' > numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' > numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Switch' > nu