Raymond, I spent most of the day today (Sunday) trying to see if I could make any progress toward making the combined digital audio over the DVI to HDMI or HDMI to HDMI issues I am having any better(e.g. no "System Ready" sound without disabling the onboard sound in the bios and loss of the first 1 to 2 seconds of audio when output is initiated) and I am sad to say I made little to no progress.
I made multiple attempts to force HDMI to be default using methods I found that worked for others with no progress. I also read a butt load of ALSA and Pulseaudio tips, tricks and bug reports as well as design documentation from ALSA. I figured if I could get the HDMI digital sound on rhe Video card working properly I would not need the analog as default for anything other than the inputs (non-linear video editing and such). I also wanted to try the fglrx or fglrx-updates driver but there is a problem with dependencies and Wine that prevents installing the driver if Wine is installed. A few issues with HDMI were solved by using the fglrx proprietary driver so I thought I would give it a try until I ran into the dependency problem. About the only thing I accomplished today was to find out that even if the alc892 chip is disabled on the motherbord to force the HDMI to the default (e.g. "0") entry when the alc892 chip is re-enabled the sound stays on HDMI at least from the "System Ready" sound standpoint. I checked the /proc/ asound card entries and the alc892 was listed at card "0" so I am not sure how the "System Ready" sound is still being output via the HDMI output. Other sounds played by the sox "play" command seem to be coming out at the analog "green" output despite the desktop being set to HDMI in the System Settings Sound dialog(AARRGGHH). Oh well at least I am learning a bit about the linux sound systems(lol). I will spend the rest of the evening backing up this system in case we need to do anything nasty that might take it down and will make a new up to date respin on my "build server" in case I need to reinstall the OS at some point(e.g. we will be able to do destuctive testing if needed). Thanks again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1394711 Title: [HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB, playback] No sound at all with built in display speakers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1394711/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
