switch audio from headphones jack to hdmi out

[Member crankywan]

Hello,
I have a rather old media computer that I just installed antix on. It plays sound out the ‘phone jack. I would like to switch the sound out to the hdmi out, but can’t seem to find the correct place to do the switch.
Any help please ?
$ inxi -F
System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Acer model: RL100 serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P01-A1 date: 12/27/2010
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II Neo K325 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
clock speeds: max: 1300 MHz 1: 1100 MHz 2: 1300 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT218 [ION]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920×1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2 NVIDIA MCP61 High Def. Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: f8:0f:41:1a:55:03
Card-2: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 68:a3:c4:50:95:88
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (0.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD7500BPVT size: 750.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 685G used: 2.9G (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 75.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 76.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 160 Uptime: 44 min Memory: 781.0/3954.1MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40

[Moderator caprea]

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Try right-click on the volume-icon in the taskbar,
go to preferences.
There you can choose the soundcard and also the channels.

[Member crankywan]

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I tried right-clicking – device selection is fixed at ‘default’

[Anonymous]

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device selection is fixed at ‘default’

troubleshooting, this suggests a faulty cable or… currently, no HDMI output device is attached?

[Moderator caprea]

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aplay -l
would be helpful

[Member crankywan]

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here is aplay output:
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Moderator caprea]

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So, if you open control-center, under hardware choosing the soundcard, is there another option than default?

Could you please post the output of
aplay -D plughw:1,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
aplay -D plughw:1,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
aplay -D plughw:1,9 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Do you hear sound by any of these options ? Then we could try to write a etc/asound.conf .
If you don’t hear sound at all, then I’m thinking about, maybe the nouvea-driver for the nvidiacard doesnt support HDMI-audio for this card.

[Moderator caprea]

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https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/
scrolling down under Notes point 10 is said nouveau does support HDMI-audio for your card.

[Member crankywan]

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here is my output,
sure seems like its playing, but no sound.

cheesey@antix1:~
$ aplay -D plughw:1,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE ‘/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
cheesey@antix1:~
$ aplay -D plughw:1,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE ‘/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
cheesey@antix1:~
$ aplay -D plughw:1,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE ‘/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
cheesey@antix1:~
$ aplay -D plughw:1,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE ‘/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
cheesey@antix1:~
$ aplay -D plughw:1,9 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE ‘/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
cheesey@antix1:~
$

[Moderator caprea]

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If you don’t hear sound at all, it doesn’t make sens to play with the etc/asound.conf
Normally if the output of aplay …. looks like yours, you should look in the mixersettings.
You say theres only the option default for the card, this is odd.

In alsamixer, if you use the F6 key, can you choose another card, like HDA NVidia ?
What does
cat /proc/asound/cards
say?

[Member crankywan]

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$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia_1 ]: HDA-Intel – HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfaef8000 irq 22
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel – HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfaf7c000 irq 19
cheesey@antix1:~
I have been muddling around with the alsamixer, I can turn the headphone jack off and on but can’t get the hdmi port to come on, My up/down arrows don’t seem to raise the volume.

[Moderator caprea]

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Just a suggestion, you could try vlc player.
In vlc you can choose under audio the output.It’s worth a try.

[Member crankywan]

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installed vlc got this:
$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.7 Umbrella (revision 2.2.7-0-g6e32381286)
[000055f843fcdea8] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[000055f843ef5118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
qt5ct: D-Bus system tray: no
inotify_add_watch(“/home/cheesey/.config/qt5ct/”) failed: “No such file or directory”
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1012, resource id: 12591610, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0

[Member crankywan]

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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE !!
Got sound with vlc
yay
Caprea thanks for your help

[Moderator caprea]

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Cool ! In firefox there’s an addon called “Open in VLC media player”
After installation, when you for the first time click on the icon in the browser (only visible if you visit a youtube-clip or something)a side will open to download a linux-zip.
Afterwards installing this too, you can look most videos in your browser with vlc.

Radio with vlc is nice with streamtuner2.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by caprea.

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