> Great. Just for my interest to know about tried/tested HTPC setups. Did > you put the components you used somewhere?
I'm not sure where these things are listed it was an old purchase stuck into an existing setup, to be honest I didn't think I was ever going to use it again as I believe the NVidia ION is now a popular choice due to the HD acceleration etc. The only reason I got this out again is because the original motherboard has a broken SPDIF socket, it was an AOpen which used a very flimsy plug to connect SPDIF through a specialised 3.5mm audio socket. In this instance I'm only using the onboard hardware of the ABIT iL-90MV so that really covers it all anyway. > Was it hard to setup? Or did you just follow [1]? Again because this was an old setup most of the config for the IEC was on the backend server and some of it did require a lot of googling to find out at the time, which was probably a couple of years ago now. But mainly it's just the appropriate string to stuff into the mythtv setup (the original IEC settings still work). Other than that the default gentoo build process worked without too many issues I dont recall doing anything special to setup sound. > I have to say, that I do not if it will work. But I am pretty sure that > chances are small that it will work right away. What prevents you from > just trying it? I've already tried, if you refer to the aplay -l listing there is no HDMI connector available to use. > If it does not work you should also try the latest releases first. I've given that a go and unfortunately it doesn't work. What I can say is that I can trick the system into giving me an HDMI connector by patching the code (patch_intelhdmi.c) but this of course doesn't give me a useable device. It does however make me believe that the issue lies with the drivers and not with something I've forgot to do? The codec is presented as 0x10ec0882 (I believe that is a Realtek 882), the hardware is listed as follows using lspci. 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02) However afaik HDMI audio is sent using the SDVO interface of the Intel graphics adapter and probably has little to do with the actual sound hardware at all. It just needs an Alsa interface so other programs can interface with it in the normal way. I believe the process is that the video driver will need to detect the relevant SDVO output firstly as HDMI and further as HDMI audio capable. I believe that there is also a mechanism for reconfiguring the audio outputs at this point. I've done some logging and I don't believe that the video driver even detects that I have an HDMI connection. If I hard coded the is_hdmi setting and SDVO_AUDIO_ENABLE there is still no change so I believe whatever is going on is more complex than that. The problem is I'm not entirely sure who to ask first, starting here seemed like a good idea as Audio therefore Alsa. However it is possible that until the video driver is setup to handle the 945GT chipset no progress can be made. Really at this point I think I need some advice from the developers as working out how the linking between the video driver and the audio driver operates may be difficult. Thanks for your assistance and if you have any other ideas to follow up on I may give them a try. Will ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
