11.04 HDMI no sound

[pharmswo]

Hi,

I have a zotac zbox. Everything is fine except no sound thru hdmi.

I have read many posts about not found a solution.
aplay -D plughw:1,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
plays a sound. Hoe do I get it to work please?

Regards

Paul

[rupurt]

I have the exact same problem but my device is 0,7. Did you end up finding a solution to make it work?

[jonbonjovi]

Same problem for me. HP dv5-1112el with nvidia gpu.

[ironspidey0]

In sound preferences, under the hardware tab, try going to the "Profile:" drop down menu and select it from there. If there is no "HDMI" option available, look for the Gnome ALSA application in the software centre. Restart, then try again. It should be there now. This worked for me!

[Kr0nZ]

Well right now my hdmi sound works fine in 11.04 after reinstalling the sound modules (sudo aptitude reinstall linux-generic) source (http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/06/how-to-fix-no-sound-problems-on-ubuntu.html)

But when I was running 10.10 I had to set my hdmi as default in my .asoundrc file

If I remember correctly this is what I had to do
I made a file in my /home/userName/ directory called .asoundrc

nano ~/.asoundrc

then i added the following line


pcm.!default "plughw:1,3"

just sub the "1,3" with what works for you in aplay

Im just going by memory here so if that dont work just try googling .asoundrc hdmi default (http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=.asoundrc+hdmi+default) Lots of results

[dyn4mo]

Hi there,

I wondered if you guys could help me out. I've got a Zbox ID41+ hooked up to my Sony HDTV over HDMI, but aplay isn't playing any sounds through the TV even.

Here is the output from aplay -l:



zbox@zbox:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 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


I've tried testing each of the devices:


zbox@zbox:~$ aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
zbox@zbox:~$ aplay -D plughw:1,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
zbox@zbox:~$ aplay -D plughw:1,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
zbox@zbox:~$ aplay -D plughw:1,9 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono


All S/PDIF channels are unmuted in alsamixer and the volume on the TV is set at normal levels.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks very much.

[Dave999]

Same problem here. Sound is working great until you trying to send it via the HDMI. running 11.04 now any solution? worked great with 10.04.

[juxmw]

This worked for me - it's easy if you know what to do :)
http://www.linjux.org/blog/2011/08/buntu-1104-nvidia-ion-and-sound-via-hdmi.html

[stafio]

dyn4mo, I had the same issue as you. I followed this guide (http://www.linjux.org/blog/2011/08/buntu-1104-nvidia-ion-and-sound-via-hdmi.html) and couldn't here anything playback. Some searching lead me to the following..

Add this PPA (https://launchpad.net/~team-iquik/+archive/alsa)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I ran through the play tests again using aplay and found one that worked after updating from the PPA.

[sarmadzhiev]

I had the similar issue on 11.10.

Switched to HDMI nr2 and that fixed it.
Prior to that I have added the psahw into ~/.asounds as described above, but it seems, that it did not make difference, because hte other accounts without it, have sound as well.