nVidia GPU YaST -> Sound Settings

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Anyone that has been following this thread knows I’ve had issues with sound since my 12.1 to 12.2 upgrade: http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/478158-hdmi-sound-not-set-right-after-upgrade-12-2-a.html

I still have the odd quirk… namely, I get sound out for videos and music, but not for system and program sounds. I think it might have something to do with the driver under YaST → Sound area. Check out this screen capture: http://i45.tinypic.com/6jj0he.png

The test sound does not work on this card through this dialog. Looking at the Driver, I think it’s the wrong one. What driver do other people see here with an nVidia GPU with HDMI sound where they get output successfully? I can’t seem to change it, but would like to know what to select if I deleted it and tried to re-add it.

Thanks.

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Have you seen this link here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html

Have you installed the nVIDIA driver? Have a look here: Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

AND

Have a look at this as well: LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.46 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

AND have a look at this article: Pulseaudio Basics for openSUSE with pavucontrol - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

AND, some more testing stuff you can find here: S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool - Version 1.12 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Lots of reading and you never know, something there might be helpful in your task.

Thank You,

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Yes, this document was UBER helpful. Helped me get far in troubleshooting if Alsa was reading the card correctly.

I’ve installed the easy way to begin with, then hard, and then have recently gone back to the easy way. :slight_smile:

Interesting, wasn’t aware of this one… which has some more good tidbits in it. Bookmarked this one.

Yes, I’ve come across this blog too, and a lot of the settings in here I’ve done and gone through. It’s worth taking another stab at it, although a lot of the steps here don’t seem to work for me already… I have no issue with the regular onboard sound in Pulse, but have a constant battle with the HDMI output. I have a few other strange issues with pulseaudio… such as, the general test on the interface (in my case “High Definition Audio Controller”) works fine, but I get no output when doing the individual Left and Right speak tests. Which I thought was a bit strange.

This looks awesome, I’ll give tool of yours a go and see what turns up. :slight_smile:

On another note, I may have inadvertently fixed the “system sounds” issue, but a lot of the tests in Pulse and YaST –> Sound do not work still… oddly enough, the system sounds fixed themselves when I re-installed the Gnome Interface packages. I’m still a bit lost what connection specifically was repaired. It seems still user/interface dependent… for example, one user logging into KDE gets prompted that the sound card defaults in Phonon will be changed to make “a better match with my system performance” where with another user all the system sounds work, but still no test sounds… I’ll plug forward on your suggestions and report back if I can get anywhere. Thanks!

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Okay, Ran the START script, and got a couple interesting results:

  1. All sounds tests produced sounds, including the Left/Right Test, which I cannot get working through the UI.

  2. All the ALSA packages look like they’re there… but I think some Pulseaudio packages are missing, but don’t know which ones… here’s what the script outputs as being installed:
    pulseaudio-1.1-6.4.1-x86_64 → openSUSE
    pulseaudio-utils-1.1-6.4.1-x86_64 → openSUSE
    pulseaudio-module-gconf-1.1-6.4.1-x86_64 → openSUSE
    pulseaudio-module-x11-1.1-6.4.1-x86_64 → openSUSE
    pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-1.1-6.4.1-x86_64 → openSUSE

START notes that I should see around 9 packages… but there’s obviously only 5… any ideas which ones I am missing?

For the record, here’s my Alsa saved info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=565afb02bce54013d5fc00dd69a1c06dbc37d4f4

Thanks,
Paul.

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Don’t worry about the driver name you are seeing there:

To me, it reads like you are bumping up against the very same libcanberra - Phonon issue that I describe (as well as the simple solution) here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/477556-no-hdmi-audio-ati-raedon-hd-4200-a.html#post2480864

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I followed the links in the post, and went through a bunch of those pages a few times now… still no luck. I also loaded the libcanberra GTK+ 3 libraries, but made no difference.

Very strange, really seems like sounds works now except some basic system sounds (I don’t get login/logoff sounds in Suse, and still don’t get any test sounds out of YaST –> Sound or the Left/Right test in Phonon). I’m all out of ideas on this one.:question:

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Yep, that’s exactly the behaviour that I previously encountered and figured out how to conquer via what I described in that thread I had linked to earlier.

However, that said, I’m now struggling with (amongst others) my own HDMI audio issue (later part of post) … though, in that regard, I think that GRUB2 (as strange as it may seem) is the source of my problem

I’m all out of ideas on this one.:question:
Just to confirm: (with all three open, and not overlapping each other, such that you can simultaneously see what happens in each) When you play one of the tests in the Phonon module, what do you observe in (a) the playback tab of pauvcontrol and (b) the playback streams tab of kmixer?

The other thing I can think of is that you might get a notification upon boot up saying that its switching back to the analog because blah blah blah … you want to revert that.

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The source of my problem turned out to be my own self inflicted silliness … now that I’ve resolved that, I’ve got HDMI audio working again without any problem … other then having to do the initial minor configuration steps I’ve explained to get it fully working.