l3mce,
      Here's what Ive got:

Did a 'fresh' install of latest LMCE DVD.  Created 1st MD.   AVWizard did not see my nVidia HDMI audio ports at this time, however I got my S/PDIF audio.

Installed the updated pluto-avwizard and pluto-boot-scripts.  (also updated the pluto-x-scripts).  Rebooted the MD into AVWizard... still no nVidia HDMI ports available, and again I got S/PDIF audio.

Prior pluto-avwizard and pluto-boot-script would not even give me the S/PDIF audio (HDA ATI SB) .  So you have fixed something.

As for the nVidia HDMI audio ports on my display adapter (nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti)... I do believe the card requires at least a 2.6.35 kernel (I found it once in some document on the web, but cannot relocate it).  

That said... If I place a 2.6.38 kernel in my MD and dont run AVWizard, audio works thru the S/PDIF... however if I run AVWizard to select the HDMI on the nVidia card, I am unable to get audio on either the HDMI or S/PDIF.

I did notice that when running alsamixer and selecting the nVidia card, I show 4 S/PDIF ports and the 1st was unmuted already (not by me) and they're usually all muted... in actuality, the 2nd S/PDIF port is the one when un-muted I get audio from 'speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8 -t sine -D hw:1,7'

see attachment.

Going to revert to the 2.6.32 kernel to get S/PDIF audio back.

Dennis

will do sir!

klanmce

no, I added a ppa  -->  ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa...   and found a kernel that would show the HDMI audio ports for my card  (which on a post somewhere I read that to get the nVidia GTX 550 Ti card to work properly in linux at least a 2.6.35 kernel is required)... and after the upgrade, the HDMI audio devices for my card showed up using aplay -l.

for the sake of 'troubleshooting', I did a fresh install of 1004 from the 26084 dvd image followed by a upgrade to bring it current... then i recreated my MD which has the nVidia card...   and yes... no HDMI audio and aplay -l does not report anything other than the mainboard audio device.

As l3mce stated he found an issue, I'm holding up any modifications to see what comes of his diligent work!

Dennis

l3mce,
what is it that you need from me so as to work toward a fix?   Ive never gone into irc... and I see you are like 4 or 5 hours ahead of me.  But if I get into irc... Im sure someone is going to want INFO... I'd like to be prepared.

I do realize that it is not practical to have all possible hardware to test...   It is easy enough to put my MD back to default (however I think that the kernel required for my card needs to be greater than the default... I tried the backported alsa 1.0.24 before upgrading the kernel, but none of the HDMI audio devices were seen without the updated kernel).

Dennis

l3mce,

before making any mods above, running speaker test worked... running a command of ' aplay -D plughw:hdmi  blah blah blah..' worked also.  i could not get any audio in mythtv other than stereo, and all my movies were in stereo as well.  

The default settings didnt work...     so, you do what ya gotta do until a proper fix can be obtained!!!  <grin>

Dennis

success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Okay... lets see what I can tell I did.

here is my asound.conf file... it may have extra junk from all the things I tried... but it works:

Code:

pcm_slave.convert {
@args [ RATE CARD DEV ]
@args.RATE {
type integer
}
@args.CARD {
type string
}
@args.DEV {
type integer
default 0
}
pcm {
@func concat
strings [ $CARD "," $DEV ]
}
rate $RATE
}

pcm.spdif_playback {
type plug
slave {
@func concat
strings [ "convert:RATE=48000,CARD=spdif:%MAIN_CARD%" ]
}
}

pcm.hdmi_playback {
type plug
slave {
@func concat
strings [ "convert:RATE=48000,CARD=hdmi:%MAIN_CARD%" ]
}
}

pcm.asym_spdif {
type asym
playback.pcm "spdif_playback"
capture.pcm "plughw:%MAIN_CARD%"
}

pcm.asym_hdmi {
type asym
playback.pcm "hdmi_playback"
capture.pcm "plughw:%MAIN_CARD%"
}

pcm.asym_analog {
type asym
playback.pcm "%ANALOG_PLAYBACK_CARD%"
capture.pcm "plughw:%MAIN_CARD%"
}

pcm.!default {
type hw
card NVidia
device 7
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card NVidia
}

#
#  Hardware output from HDMI
#

pcm.!hdmi {
@args [ CARD DEV AES0 AES1 AES2 AES3 ]
@args.CARD {
type string
default {
@func getenv
vars [
ALSA_IEC958_CARD
ALSA_PCM_CARD
ALSA_CARD
]
default {
@func refer
name defaults.pcm.iec958.card
}
}
}
@args.DEV {
type integer
default {
@func igetenv
vars [
ALSA_IEC958_DEVICE
]
default {
@func refer
name defaults.pcm.iec958.device
}
}
}
@args.AES0 {
type integer
# consumer, not-copyright, emphasis-none, mode=0
default 0x04
}
@args.AES1 {
type integer
# original, PCM coder
default 0x82
}
@args.AES2 {
type integer
# source and channel
default 0x00
}
@args.AES3 {
type integer
# fs=48000Hz, clock accuracy=1000ppm
default 0x02
}
type empty
slave.pcm {
@func refer
name {
@func concat
strings [
"cards."
{
@func card_driver
card $CARD
}
".pcm.hdmi." $DEV ":"
"CARD=" $CARD ","
"AES0=" $AES0 ","
"AES1=" $AES1 ","
"AES2=" $AES2 ","
"AES3=" $AES3
]
}
}
hint {
show {
@func refer
name defaults.namehint.basic
}
description "HDMI Audio Output"
device $DEV
}
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hw:0,1"
format S32_LE
}
}

pcm.!default {
     type plug
     slave.pcm "hdmi"
}

The later modifications came from here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AllensDigitalAudioHowto

I also modified xine.conf according to this: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/NVidia_GT220_HDMI_sound


I am also running a higher kernel version... I tried 2.6.38 before these modifications (which i didnt work) then updated to 3.0.0-24 before making these modifications.   (my nvidia card - GTX 550 Ti - requires at least 2.6.38 to see the NVidia HDMI audio hardware).

I'll keep informing if something happens.

Dennis

UPDATE:    Mythtv plays surround fine, and movies play proper audio as well.

Re-igniting this thread!!!!


Ive managed to get stereo audio from my MD (NVidia GTX 550 Ti) to my receiver.  Ive gone thru all the other threads and other internet searches, but cannot find a viable solution to resolving the 'stereo only' issue.

I had to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.38 to even get the system to see the HDA NVidia devices (read somewhere on nVidia web site that minimum was 2.6.38)
*** I even tried 3.0.0-24 kernel as well... at this point is when I got the stereo audio thru HDMI****

Alsa is at 1.0.24.

Both my onboard sound card and NVidia card use the snd-hda-intel driver:

0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                     HDA ATI SB at 0xf7ff4000 irq 16
1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                     HDA NVidia at 0xfbe7c000 irq 19

standard testing yields proper results:
aplay -D plug:hdmi /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav  plays the .wav file.
speaker-test -D plug:hdmi -c8 plays the 'static' thru each speaker in succession.

It is ONLY in LMCE that i get stereo audio ...  in AVWizard audio setup and after MD is active playing a 5.1 or 7.1 movie.


Has anyone gotten any farther?


any help will be greatly appreciated.

Dennis

bringing this back up again... Im at a loss at getting HDMI audio working.

Mobo - MSI 870A-G46
GPU - nVidia GTX-550 Ti

**************************************************************************
lspci:
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

**************************************************************************
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

****************************************************************************************

aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=SB
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
    HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output


****************************************************************************************

ls -F /proc/asound/card1
codec#0  codec#2  eld#0.0  eld#2.0  id      pcm7p/  pcm9p/
codec#1  codec#3  eld#1.0  eld#3.0  pcm3p/  pcm8p/

****************************************************************************************

cat /proc/asound/card1/eld#1.0
monitor_present         1
eld_valid               1
monitor_name            DENON-AVR
 
connection_type         HDMI
eld_version             [0x2] CEA-861D or below
edid_version            [0x3] CEA-861-B, C or D
manufacture_id          0xee11
product_id              0x2e
port_id                 0x20000
support_hdcp            0
support_ai              0
audio_sync_delay        0
speakers                [0x5f] FL/FR LFE FC RL/RR RC RLC/RRC
sad_count               6
sad0_coding_type        [0x1] LPCM
sad0_channels           8
sad0_rates              [0x1ee0] 44100 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000
sad0_bits               [0xe0000] 16 20 24
sad1_coding_type        [0x7] DTS
sad1_channels           6
sad1_rates              [0x6c0] 48000 88200 176400 192000
sad1_max_bitrate        1536000
sad2_coding_type        [0x2] AC-3
sad2_channels           6
sad2_rates              [0xe0] 44100 48000 88200
sad2_max_bitrate        640000
sad3_coding_type        [0xb] DTS-HD
sad3_channels           8
sad3_rates              [0x1ec0] 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000
sad4_coding_type        [0xa] E-AC-3/DD+ (Dolby Digital Plus)
sad4_channels           8
sad4_rates              [0xc0] 48000 88200
sad5_coding_type        [0xc] MLP (Dolby TrueHD)
sad5_channels           8
sad5_rates              [0x1ec0] 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000

*******************************************************************************************

from dmesg:

[   43.874570] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00: GPU-9df96c4f-7ee2-795c-b4c1-19cd4b719619
[   43.979833] HDMI hot plug event: Pin=5 Presence_Detect=1 ELD_Valid=0
[   43.998243] HDMI hot plug event: Pin=5 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=1
[   44.776030] HDMI: detected monitor DENON-AVR
[   44.776032]    at connection type HDMI
[   44.776034] HDMI: available speakers: FL/FR LFE FC RL/RR RC RLC/RRC
[   44.776038] HDMI: supports coding type LPCM: channels = 8, rates = 44100 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000, bits = 16 20 24
[   44.776041] HDMI: supports coding type DTS: channels = 6, rates = 48000 88200 176400 192000, max bitrate = 1536000
[   44.776043] HDMI: supports coding type AC-3: channels = 6, rates = 44100 48000 88200, max bitrate = 640000
[   44.776045] HDMI: supports coding type DTS-HD: channels = 8, rates = 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000
[   44.776047] HDMI: supports coding type E-AC-3/DD+ (Dolby Digital Plus): channels = 8, rates = 48000 88200
[   44.776049] HDMI: supports coding type MLP (Dolby TrueHD): channels = 8, rates = 48000 88200 176400 192000 384000


******************************************************************************************************



at a terminal, the following command will play on all speakers:
                    speaker-test -c 8 -r 48000 -D hw:1,7    *** this works for 7.1 channels


While running AVWizard, I get a screen (#5) to select which audio controller to use... then select HDMI... but i get no sound at all during the test.


Can someone tell me what I am 'missing' (besides a few screws!!!)


Thanks,
Dennis

guys,

     I was working on getting AC3 audio via HDMI on LMCE 1004 today...   after much searching the last two mornings, I found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1608804   Something about a52 not set up causing the problem.
My board is an MSI 870A-G46 with the Realtek ALC-892 chip.   I was only getting PCM (stereo) from my Media Director into my Denon receiver via HDMI (and also thru SPDIF).   I havent tried HD audio yet... but will be firing up a movie later today.

I can do:  speaker-test -Da52:0 -c6 and all speakers check properly. Unfortunately I have to figure out how to get the Media Director to know about it.

Good luck,

Dennis

thanks,

I have to go back to work this evening... so I'll have to try it out later this week.

Dennis

awesomeness!   anxiously awaiting!

Dennis

No problems experienced here either...  One core/hybrid and 2 MDs

Dennis

l3mce,
I did change Resolutions.conf.   It doesnt change the available resolutions for when using 'Component' as a video output.  I did notice that the 1080i shows up under the other possible video outputs though.  That is what I cant figure out.

Thanks for the heads up on the Mach64... I havent had to mess with my Core that has the Mach64 driver.. only my MD is giving me a headache!

Dennis

I too am having this issue on my MD... it is a

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX] (rev a2)
       Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0592
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fbde0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidia, nvidiafb, nouveau

and a snip from Xorg.0.log:

Code:

--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0612:10de:0592 NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX] rev 162

l3mce.... i know you've been reworking video card detection for some time now..   Ive managed to work around this issue by replacing the Utils.sh file with an older one I have saved (you sent it to me because of an issue with my Core's video card 'Mach64'), and then re-naming the AVWizard_Run.sh.     That allowed me to use a custom xorg.conf file (im running 1080i via component cables to my tv).

I'd be nice to have the video wizard allow 1080i for Component hookups... but ive not figured out where/how to enable it.

Dennis

i did the same as well.. but ive been installing other .deb packages from time to time trying things... I may have garbled things up somewhere when it comes to flash...  I'll try some other things... but work got busy again.. ugghhh.


Dennis