On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Richard Vickery
<richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> 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
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