[9.10 regression] HDA NVIDIA HDMI no sound after alsa 1.0.20 update

I am running Karmic beta and installed it on a Zotac Ion motherboard.

I also can't get HDMI audio to work.

Tests:

Sound Preferences - Hardware:

Profiles:

- Analog stereo output --> Works
- Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output - Doesn't work
- Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog stereo output - Doesn't work (not the HDMI nor the analog stereo)

Shouldn't the last one be at least able to work in the analog stereo output?

Please try changing profiles when running pulseaudio with -vvv to get a log output. To do this, do the following:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Run this command: echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf ; pulseaudio -k
3. Run pulseaudio like so: pulseaudio -vvv > pulse-output.log 2>&1

Then attempt to change profiles and play audio.

Then if you could attach pulse-output.log to the bug, we can have a look to see what may be going on.

Thanks

Alright Luke, I did what you said.

Between steps 2 and 3 I had to kill pulseaudio (otherwise 3 would not run pulseaudio -vvv).

The test case was:

1. Play an mp3 song
2. Switch from "analog audio" to "HDMI output" in the Profile list of the Hardware section: song stopped playing in my headphones and didn't start playing on my television screen

3. Switched back to analog audio and song resumed in my headphones

(btw, I don't know if it shows in the log file, but I actually switched from analog-hdmi-analog-hdmi).

Also, I tried running pavucontrol and I actually see the volume mixer moving when I'm in HDMI ouput and the song is playing. But no sound comes out of the tv speakers...

Also, if it helps, here is the result of running aplay -L:

front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server

[SOLUTION]

Regarding this problem, I found the solution by running alsamixer and toggling the option:

IEC958 1

(ie, going to that option and pressing 'm').

The problem is that I can't see a way of doing that without alsamixer, ie with the audio desktop applet, so there's no way the general user will make this work without losing sometime searching for the answer online...

wild_oscar you saved my life (exactly you saved my available sleep time :-)). Your solution works for me also.

I have searched for this solution for more than a month without success. I have different hardware as you do (see below) but solution is same for me too.

------------- cut this -----------
simon@mmedia02:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Well, that's the beauty of open source and collaboration!

thank you wild_oscar, i was lost as well.
i hope that option will (re)appear soon in gnome-volume-control

wild_oscar, you are the man, you save me a long time and boring work,
really SL and colaboration is that!!
thanks all,
May I put this solutions in forum of Brazil?
of course yet?

thanxs

Of course, Hugo, spread the word! It would be good if it could be made easier to make it work!

I don't know if somebody of you found the same solution as I have but ..

it was very simple to get HDMI working I just thought about the problem that I had to get hw:0,3 working..
which is the alsa device for HDMI sound..

what you have to do is to enable (unmute) the mixer <IEC958 1> by alsamixer for example and thats it!

btw. it wouldn't be a big problem for the ubuntu-audio-devs to auto-enable it by default :)

please thank me if it was useful!

@Thomas: or you could have read comment 6: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/385076/comments/6

Thank you wild_oscar, you saved another life...

Hi! It's still not working for me.
I'm on 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Karmic Koala 9.10

I unmuted <IEC958> and <IEC958 D>.
My aplay -l:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

My aplay -L:
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse

and still:
- Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output - Doesn't work
- Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog stereo output - Doesn't work

I have the same problem as rafael.inigo : even tho I have unmuted iec958 in alsamixer, there is no sound by default. Oddly enough tho, sound over hdmi seems to be working under the hood, since if I issue something I found in a Googled posting:

mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 -afm hwac3 test.mp3

I hear the mp3. However, if I use a gui app with, say, Internet radio, there is no sound.

This is on Zotac MAG, with HDMI cable to LCD HDTV.

Solved!

I loosely followed a posting at:

http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2009/08/asrock-ion-330-nettop-with-jaunty.html

and created an /etc/asound.conf file with contents:

defaults.pcm.!card NVidia
defaults.ctl.!card NVidia
defaults.pcm.!device 3
defaults.ctl.!device 3

Now HDMI sound just works.

Hi databubble,

Please, if you are still having issues, test with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p alsa-base 385076

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds .

Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

Please let us know your results.

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Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: lucky 1628 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xdbe78000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC888'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,14627309,00100202'
   Controls : 27
   Simple ctrls : 16
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/dsp: tothgergo 3155 F...m WoW.exe
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xddef8000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1988'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41988,10438241,00100400'
   Controls : 40
   Simple ctrls : 23
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1753): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1753): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1847): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1857): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: stian 1626 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p: stian 1626 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd7000000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7608,103c306c,00100202 HDA:10de0003,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 32
   Simple ctrls : 19
CheckboxSubmission: e7ca4a7baa72e5e9094d6fd385b06dbf
CheckboxSystem: e704f33cc0866ff0f0256a33de39ea1c
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1638): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1739): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1745): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1738): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -1 and height 24
 (firefox:1887): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

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