[Alsa-user] ATI HDMI Audio

2011-06-16 Thread Tom Horsley
I find that if I install the binary ATI driver for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series card in my Dell Zino HD, I can get audio out the HDMI port, but if I use the open source xorg-x11-drv-ati driver I get no audio. The utterly mysterious bit is that lspci says the device is using snd-hda-intel

Re: [Alsa-user] Which pci-e card?

2011-06-16 Thread lists
Note you need the model with a pci-e host card. If you watch ebay, one should turn up. The Magma boxes are very modular. They have a PC type power supply, the pci back plane, a card that goes into the back plane, a card that goes in the PC, and a connect cable. If you google for similar pro

Re: [Alsa-user] Help with ALSA on new computer

2011-06-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I found this link: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=69601 It fixed my problem. HDMI audio works just fine using the probe_mask. jerry -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content author

Re: [Alsa-user] Help with ALSA on new computer

2011-06-16 Thread James Shatto
It depends on the HDMI device. For my video card, the specification of the sound that travels over that wire is pretty strict. ONLY AC3, only 44.1kHz, only stereo / 2 channels, only... And it does work if all criteria is met. But I much prefer to use the analog audio (lossless / PCM). But a si

[Alsa-user] Help with ALSA on new computer

2011-06-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I got a new computer (Zotac HD-ID40) ION2 I have installed alsa 1.0.24 on Centos 5.6 x86_64. Not sure why it registers 2 audio devices either. here is info: lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 03:00.1 Audio devi

Re: [Alsa-user] Which pci-e card?

2011-06-16 Thread owl...@gmail.com
Thank you i'll by a 7 PCI slots magma box, it's amazing > > The order changes when you boot. I have seen solutions to this posted. A job for google. > > I move the order around in yast, but of course that advice is only useful if you run suse/opensuse. > > If you run multiple cards and want to min