Nvidia GT220 & Audio Device "0be2"

[darkscout]

I just bought an OEM GT220 on eBay, it is the PCI version of the GT216. It's also the highest end VDPAU Feature Set C chip available for the desktop. I've seen numerous references to it including an audio decoder on board (instead of having SPDIF in).

Sure enough it shows up:

> 03:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)

However linux has no clue what it is and ALSA doesn't know how to use it. Does anyone have any patches or hacks to get this working?

I currently have

00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)

On board, but without getting the '0be2' working I can't get audio out via HDMI.

[darkshadow]

I feel your pain I have a GTS 250M and can't get the hdmi audio working because I can't get the audio device working. Although mine is 0be4. Hopefully they are close enough that drivers can be made for both of us easily.

[jocefus]

I have read someone got it to work with aplay, as in speaker test. However, still no sound. I have geforce 210 with this device:

02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be3 (rev a1)

It shows no kernel modules or drivers loaded for this device, and aplay of course doesn't see it.

This is the forum where I was reading:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140264

[darkscout]

Anyone making any headway?

[jstapels]

I'm in the same boat as everyone else. Hopefully someone gets this working soon in ALSA.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)

[sherl0k]

could you please paste the outputs of your aplay -l and aplay -L ?

[jstapels]

could you please paste the outputs of your aplay -l and aplay -L ?

Sure, not a problem. I'm running Karmic with the latest nvidia drivers from the nvidia-vdpau PPA. I haven't tried the latest ALSA dev nor any of the GT 220 patches floating around.

jstapels@media:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC887 Analog [ALC887 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC887 Digital [ALC887 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

jstapels@media:~$ aplay -L
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server

It's a P55 chipset on the MB, so I assume everything is from that.

[syoung]

Chiming in to say that I'm also experiencing the same issue with a GT 220 in 9.10 and the 190.32 drivers.

[David Grigor]

I just installed a asus gt220 last night which also has the native hdmi sound builtin. Hindsight, you probably better off choosing a 220 that uses the spdif jumper to supply sound to the hdmi.

aplay -l only shows the onboard sound devices.

The video works like a champ on the highest vdpau interlace settings which I'm very pleased with compared to the onboard 8200 it replaced.


What commands are you using to see this ?

01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)

So I can check to see if I at least get that far as well.

[jstapels]

What commands are you using to see this ?

01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)

So I can check to see if I at least get that far as well.

$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)