Sound issues

[Member mustdos]

Hello all!

I’m having issues in laptop to give me sound over HDMI; it only detects my internal speakers in Alsa. I tried to install PulseAudio but it didn’t help; it just gets stuck in “establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait…” window.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Member Xecure]

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Would you mind testing this scrip with Alsa?
https://www.antixforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/select-alsa-device.zip

Select the hdmi device and hit “Test”. If any of them work and a “Front Left – Fron Right” audio plays (and you can hear it), select the device again and click Save.

Hopefully this time I can get feedback for this script (and hopefully this script helps solve the problem).

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[Member PPC]

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all the help you’ll probably ever need, using antiX: search the forum… I don’t know, maybe, looking for “HDMI”?

Now, really, try this:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/hdmi-e-som/#post-51475

I hope it works for you, if not, let us know…

EDIT: damm it, Xecure, type slower!!! I’ve beaten me again… 🙂

P.

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@Xecure- I finally have a working sound card on my desktop, and I tested your script-
One word: brilliant! It works great! I hope it gets picked up by anticapitalista and finds its way to the Control Centre of the next antiX version!

Suggestion: I did not take a look at your script, but I found something that may confuse users: once the user selects a card and tests it, the window restarts and does not show any selected sound card… Maybe you can make the main window search for the previous tested sound card (on that time the script is run) and make it the default selection?

P.

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Tried the script, the aplay -l got my speakers as here

mustdosPC% aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

But I can’t get sound over HDMI.

[Member Xecure]

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PPC wrote:

EDIT: damm it, Xecure, type slower!!!

Hahahaha! I just opened the forum and saw this post. No intention to hijack!

PPC wrote:

@Xecure- I finally have a working sound card on my desktop, and I tested your script-

Thanks for testing. I have followed your feedback and removed the Test button and the test (double-click on the device) now doesn’t close the window.

I find this script useful for when a card has multiple devices, and each has different output (one the Analog HW, the other HDMI, for example). Selecting the card from “Sound Card Chooser” gives me no options (only 1 card available), and I wasn’t able to get hdmi as default sound output until I created a .asoundrc file in $HOME. I decided to try to add these options to the current card chooser script, but it uses a different method to find the cards available (and not the devices, and also outputs the options to a different script that handles the interface, it was too complicated for me to try to fit the new options there), so I created a replacement that lets you test the device first before saving the changes (and now lets you restore the default configuration).

I need more people to test it (people with multiple devices for one sound card) before I ask anyone to include it in antiX.

Hopefully mustdos and other can test it so I can improve and fix issues.

Attachments:

1. select-alsa-device-0.2.zip

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mustdos wrote:

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

But I can’t get sound over HDMI.

Can you give us?
inxi -Fxz

I needed to upgrade the kernel to at least version 4.19 for one of my devices with HDMI out to work.

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System:
  Host: mustdosPC Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.20.4 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG 
  product: 300E5EV/300E4EV/270E5EV/270E4EV/2470EV/2470EE v: 0.1 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: NP300E4E-A03SA v: FAB1 serial: <filter> UEFI: Phoenix 
  v: P08RBD date: 08/28/2014 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 37.7 Wh condition: 37.7/48.8 Wh (77%) 
  model: SAMSUNG Electronics status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19953 
  Speed: 2900 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2900 2: 2900 
  3: 2900 4: 2900 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Samsung Co 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Samsung Co driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Samsung Co driver: ath9k v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Samsung Co RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb 
  bus ID: 1-1.3:5 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 525.24 GiB used: 395.67 GiB (75.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD050 size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: Multiple Card Reader size: 59.48 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 17.18 GiB used: 9.66 GiB (56.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 90.0 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 289 Uptime: 23h 17m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 6.59 GiB (85.8%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: zsh v: 5.7.1 
  inxi: 3.0.36

[Member Xecure]

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Kernel 4.9 should work for HDMI audio output.

mustdos wrote:

I tried to install PulseAudio but it didn’t help; it just gets stuck in “establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait…” window.

mustdos wrote:

Desktop: MATE 1.20.4

If you still have pulseaudio installed, run this on the terminal
pulseaudio -D &

And again try to use the device selector in pulse audio volume control app in MATE, and select HDMI as output. I think there should also be a “test sound” button to make sure it works.

I may be mistaken, but you may have to enable a MATE option to enable pulseaudio on boot, similar to what needs to be done for KDE.
(see first half of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vLK-CEr0vY)
As you are using a different DE than the default antiX, and antiX doesn’t use systemd, maybe some of these things need to be handdled.

If this still doesn’t work, try installing a 4.19 kernel from the Package Installer (search for latest_LTS)

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Xecure.

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This is what I got from pulseaudio -D & after I tried that link

mustdosPC% pulseaudio -D &
[1] 1217
mustdosPC% E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

[1]  + exit 1     pulseaudio -D

I also updated the kernel

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Hi mustdos,

I myself has some time enabling the hdmi audio output with alsa, as I did not knew how it worked when I “arrived” to antiX.

What made it work for me was the ~/.asoundrc

In my case this is what I have in the file:

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "hdmi"
}

pcm.softvol {
    type            softvol
    slave {
        pcm         "hdmi"
    }
    control {
        name        "HDMI 0"
        card        0
        device		3
    }
}

This enables the HDMI sound, that I can see in the alsamixer as S/PDIF.
This has no volume control with alsa, as it doen’t have a build-in hardware sound control.

Another possible file for you is this one:

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 3
}

Give it a try. I still have not been able to fully understand the file sintaxis 🙁

Also, try searching for “.asoundrc hdmi audio laptop”, it will provide very useful information of users setting up the same.

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pepitofer wrote:

What made it work for me was the ~/.asoundrc

The script I shared does (in a very simplified way) what you describe, adding the card and device to ~/.asoundrc
The audio device testing didn’t seem to work for mustdos, but maybe adding the .asoundrc configuration and then restarting the system may work.
The problem I had with my laptop is that I needed a kernel upgrade before the .asoundrc file worked (that is whay I later suggested upgrading the kernel), but it is probably related to having a newer system compared to mustdos’ machine.

As mustdos is not using the default antiX system but is running MATE desktop on it, some things may work differently (like what had to be done in dolphin_oracle’s video I linked where a file needed to be edited to get pulseaudio to autostart on KDE).

I cannot test a MATE installation right now to check how things need to be done, so if anyone has any idea, they are welcome to share it here.

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Hi, there I’m with trouble running nvidia graphics via hdmi still no audio at the end

I run your script it makes the output sound left-right on my Tv via hdmi but when click save and reboot there’s no sound any help ?

antiX21

Thanks

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After reboot did you try to go to
menu > control-centre > hardware > test sound
Which application did you try for testing the sound?

[Member samuraikid]

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Hi thanks for the reply @caprea
Ill try on a fresh install

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The sound only play when i run the alsa-device.sh script

when i click card 1 hdmi 7 and test i hear left/right speak on tv but after save , reboot still no sound

On antiX21 default sound card selector it doesn’t connect to my nvidia 1050Ti OC only hda intel but no sound either way

Edited: I tried your advice without success i selected nvidia on control panel – sound skipped test (or it would drop error), rebooted and clicked test sound the terminal window open and closes fast

also ~/.asoundrc the dropped those lines on the file

defaults.pcm.!card PCH
defaults.ctl.!card PCH

Thanks

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by samuraikid.

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