Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 HDMI Sound Configuration

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:07:14 +0000

Tim, I’m glad my tutorial and Mark’s comment helped you. I’ve been wanting to build a HTPC. WHat kind of Nvidia you running on it? I’ve thought about trying to build an Intel Atom-Nvidia ION based HTPC but not sure how good it would be as a DVR for Digital cable.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:59:33 +0000

Thanks Matt and Mark!! I now have sound through HDMI on my HTPC. I have Ubuntu 9.04, ASUS EN9400GT with Nvidia.

I just followed Marks comments from 8-Sep-2009, and it worked perfectly.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:06:20 +0000

Mark, thanks for sharing the changes required for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I’m sure others will appreciate hearing about your experience.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:19:30 +0000

Thank you.

Worked on my Toshiba M300 Laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, with the following modifications:

I started at the step to activate the Hardware Drivers, as the “ATI/AMD proprietry FGLRX graphics driver” was already listed under System>Administration>Hardware Drivers.

But the driver wasn’t activated, so I clicked the Activate button and a “Downloading and Installing” info window opened up. Took a couple of minutes to complete, then I was requested to reboot to complete installation.

I then followed the rest of the original procedure as laid out above.

Thanks again

Mark

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:08:58 +0000

rg, I honestly don't know what to tell you to do to get flash to play sounds through HDMI. I did come across the a site which mentions having sound problems with Flash. The solution looks to be installing alsa-oss. Alsa seems to be a common theme to fixing HDMI sound problems so it's worth a shot.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:59:29 +0000

peter, thanks for answering Trab’s question. I’m glad someone knows how to get HDMI to work with Amarok. I’m sure many others will be thanking you as well.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:44:42 +0000

Trab – To configure Amarok to work with the HDMI go into Amarok, click settings, then configure Amarok.

Go to the engine TAB on the left, and for the output device change that to Alsa

Click Apply, then Alsa Device configuration will appear. Now to get this to work you need to enter for Mono and Stereo something like this:

hw:2,3

Mine is soundcard 2 and device 3 hence the above senttings.

To get what your device is for the HDMI open a terminal window and run this command:
aplay -l

the following lists the cards as well as the surround devices
aplay -l && aplay -L

For 4 channels and 6 channels I am not sure what to put in there… but I have at least mono and stereo working for now.

Cheers,
Peter

By: rg

rg — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:25:07 +0000

thanks for the excellent post. I wish I would have seen it hours ago so all audio (vlc, totem, the tests in sound preferences) seems to be working through HDMI except for firefox. any ideas here? I have been specifically trying to play Flash through youtube etc). I have the Shockwave Flash 10.0.r22 plugin active
thanks in advance… rg

By: Gopal

Gopal — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:46:11 +0000

I have a different problem. I am using the 4670 to use as a regular PC and after installing the 4670, I dont get the sound out through the Southbridge sound card. I am guessing its coming out of the hdmi.
Is there a way to turn off the hdmi sound out completely?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:18:45 +0000

This process worked fine to get Totem and VLC to play the sound via HDMI but I still do not get system sounds over HDMI. Does anyone know how to get that working. Some say it is because of an incompatability between Pulseaudio and ALSA. I have no way to verify that.