gpu: nvidia 550 Ti connected to main monitor via dvi and to tv via hdmi for playback of video only
issue: out of the box hdmi audio does not work
in all the kde distros I have tried this seems to be an issue. Yet the hdmi is always set as the default option yet when I switch the desktop to the tv it never works. In ubuntu however: hdmi is set as default yet when I switch to the tv it just works.
I know I can play with settings etc to acheive a working solution but why shouldn’t it not just work? I really would like to use opensuse on the release of 12.2 but not if I have to start configing files here and there which quite frankly should just work from the get go.
Incidently I get the same issue adding kde to ubuntu so I’m certain this is a kde config or pulse config issue.
If there is an obvious solution other than ploughing through config files please let me know. But I can’t seem to find one.
On 07/16/2012 02:56 PM, germulvey wrote:
> If there is an obvious solution other than ploughing through config
> files please let me know. But I can’t seem to find one.
whats wrong with: “Use what works!” ??
like, in your case Ubuntu seems to work, so why not use it?
next year Ubuntu may not work with your hardware, but Debian or
openSUSE will…so, use what works then.
On 07/16/2012 05:46 PM, germulvey wrote:
>
> by that logic I might aswell just use windows
ok, use what works that is safe, free and open source…
of course, many millions do use unsafe, non-free and closed source that
works…
anyway, i looked at your subject and gave you my - more a rant reply
than a help request reply/answer…
if you want a help request answer you need to provide less rant and more
info, like:
what driver are you using for that nVidia?
i ask because nVidia provides a closed source driver which will never
be provided “out of the box” by _open_SUSE, but that very same driver is
probably provided by Ubuntu, “out of the box”…
therefore, i can guess that you are using the open source driver and
there lies the root of your problem…but, i’ll not guess…
As I said origionally I can fix it hense the rant about why it does not work considering it sets up hdmi from the nvidia card as the default sound output in pulse audio server. The hdmi sound does not work with the open source driver yet and requires the binary nvidia driver (302.17 in this case) also by modifying load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw: X,X I can select the correct device. Thus bringing me back to my origional point why does it work in gnome based distro out of the box but not kde based distros I have tried. Thus making your point of use what works vaild but not a solution to why it doesn’t just work.
germulvey wrote:
> As I said origionally I can fix it hense the rant about why it does not
> work considering it sets up hdmi from the nvidia card as the default
> sound output in pulse audio server. The hdmi sound does not work with
> the open source driver yet and requires the binary nvidia driver (302.17
> in this case) also by modifying load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:
> X,X I can select the correct device. Thus bringing me back to my
> origional point why does it work in gnome based distro out of the box
> but not kde based distros I have tried. Thus making your point of use
> what works vaild but not a solution to why it doesn’t just work.
>
Instead of ranting, why not find out what the problem is and post a bug
report? Wouldn’t that be more helpful both to yourself in particular and
to the world at large?
You seem to have some idea of what the cause of the problem is and how
to fix it. If you posted a step-by-step explanation of what config you
need to change to fix it, then perhaps it will get fixed, or at least it
could be put in the wiki to help people.
If it’s a question of using a proprietary driver instead of the open
source one, then whether it works out of the box is going to depend on
distros’ philosophy and contractual arrangements. And I’d expect there
already is a bug, so add your ‘me too’ there where it may influence the
likelihood of some solution. Ranting here is a just a waste of your
time, I’m afraid.
Given one needs the proprietary driver (as you noted) even Gnome will not work out of the box if it is a GNU/Linux distribution that pushes free open source and does not include the proprietary drivers.
I don’t have an HDMI setup myself, but I have been in a number of threads trying to help users with this, and my experience with HDMI functioning easy, or difficult, is it is very hardware dependent. Some HDMI hardware needs a lot of tuning. Some ‘just works’ with the right driver.
