MCP67 HDMI audio lucid 10.04 fully updated

[alazare619]

A little info: Im using the stock video driver atm not proprietary drivers fresh install but I did apt-get purge pulseaudio to eliminate some issues video works flawlesslyI have checked alsamixer and made sure everything was not MM and was/is at 100 on volume

The tv is a vizio 42 inch and if it makes a diffrence this was a headless install then apt-get installed xubuntu-desktop

LSPCI info

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)

aplay -l

alazare619@Voidd-Server:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 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

[BicyclerBoy]

So what..
Do you have a problem with no audio over HDMI ?

I suspect that full HDMI audio capabilities is only possible when using nVidia driver but not sure with chipset HDMI audio..

dmesg | HDA
ls -al /proc/asound/card0/eld#*

if eld#0.0 etc files exist then post contents
i.e.
cat /proc/asound/card0/eld#1.0

[alazare619]

yes the issue is in fact that I have 0 audio what so ever over hdmi My only means to transmit audio is over the hdmi cable Ive never looked into this before as I always had a standalone home theather system that I ran headphone to rca cable converter and played soudn through there well now I no longer have that option so I must transmit the audio over hdmi

do you want me to run those commands btw?

[alazare619]

Just installed the newest driver off the nvidia website and now aplay -l lists nothing

[BicyclerBoy]

You don't need the latest nVidia driver..
Installing from nVidia directly is a bad idea, recipe for problems later..
Much better to use launchpad ppa & use package management.

HDMI audio:
What you have to have is alsa-1.0.24 (or later) userspace (libraries utils) v& proprietary video driver.

With lucid 10.04 you need to add the iQuik audio ppa to upgrade alsa user-space to 1.0.24.

[alazare619]

ok I added ubuntu x swat team update ppa, but how do i get the whole iquik ppa? and where can i find userspace?

[alazare619]

Ok quick update, Fresh installed Headless

#apt-get update
#add-apt-repository ppa:team-iquik/alsa
#add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
#apt-get update
#apt-get install xubuntu-desktop nvidia-current
#apt-get dist-upgrade

Dist-upgrade upgraded alsa to 1.0.24, thats where im at atm let me know where to continue and since I fresh installed pulse audio is back on it again

[BicyclerBoy]

pulse-audio is not a problem..
You didn't need to make a fresh install just to remove the nVidia driver..

aplay -l
dmesg | grep HDA
speaker-test (reports the alsa user version)

The eld# stuff posted earlier is likely pointless as I think your chipset HDA audio does not support ELD reporting.

[alazare619]

aplay -l

alazare619@Voidd-Server:~$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...

sudo aplay -l

alazare619@Voidd-Server:~$ sudo aplay -l
[sudo] password for alazare619:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 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

dmesg | grep HDA

alazare619@Voidd-Server:~$ dmesg | grep HDA
[    9.852966] HDA Intel 0000:00:07.0: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: INT A -> IRQ 11
[    9.853002] HDA Intel 0000:00:07.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   10.780131] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/input/input3

speaker-test

alazare619@Voidd-Server:~$ speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.24.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

ls -al /proc/asound/card0/

ls -al /proc/asound/card0/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 .
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 codec#0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 codec#3
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 id
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 oss_mixer
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm0c
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm0p
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm1c
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm1p
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm2c
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-04-02 21:03 pcm3p

[alazare619]

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