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If you have spent days and days fucking around trying to get sound to work with your NVidia 220GT HDMI, you have to use hw:0,7 not hw:0,3 which is the first thing pulse sees, and you need to unmute it in ALSA.
 
If you have spent days and days fucking around trying to get sound to work with your NVidia 220GT HDMI, you have to use hw:0,7 not hw:0,3 which is the first thing pulse sees, and you need to unmute it in ALSA.
 
  sudo apt-get install alsamixergui
 
  sudo apt-get install alsamixergui
Run alsamixergui and UNMUTE ALL FOUR FUCKING SPDIF CHANNELS. Then, add this to the end of /etc/pulse/default.pa:
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Run alsamixergui and UNMUTE ALL FOUR FUCKING SPDIF CHANNELS.
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== Surround sound ==
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Since I have a surround HDMI amplifier, I use this in ''/etc/pulse/default.pa'' after the autodetect phase (which you might still want when you plug in USB devices for instance):
 
  load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,7 channels=6 \
 
  load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,7 channels=6 \
   channel_map=front-left,front-right,front-center,lfe,rear-left,rear-right
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   channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
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and in ''/etc/pulse/daemon.conf'' you need:
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default-sample-channels = 6
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default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
  
Alternatively, ditch the piece of shit and use ALSA instead:
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== Support for 24 bit 96 kHz audio ==
  sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-alsa gnome-alsamixer
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Make Pulse use 32 bit samples in ''/etc/pulse/daemon.conf'' and bump up the sample rate:
  sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
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  default-sample-format = s32le
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  default-sample-rate = 96000

Revision as of 04:07, 26 May 2012

If you have spent days and days fucking around trying to get sound to work with your NVidia 220GT HDMI, you have to use hw:0,7 not hw:0,3 which is the first thing pulse sees, and you need to unmute it in ALSA.

sudo apt-get install alsamixergui

Run alsamixergui and UNMUTE ALL FOUR FUCKING SPDIF CHANNELS.

Surround sound

Since I have a surround HDMI amplifier, I use this in /etc/pulse/default.pa after the autodetect phase (which you might still want when you plug in USB devices for instance):

load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,7 channels=6 \
  channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe

and in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf you need:

default-sample-channels = 6
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe

Support for 24 bit 96 kHz audio

Make Pulse use 32 bit samples in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and bump up the sample rate:

default-sample-format = s32le
default-sample-rate = 96000