Re: No HDMI audio with nvidia driver?

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > As part of a temporary experiment, I put an Nvidia card in > my system: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) > 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) > > The gnome-control-center sound panel seems to believe that > it can output audio to the HDMI output, but nothing comes > out on a sound test. > > If I install the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion, I > do get HDMI audio, so I'm guessing the nvidia driver > just can't do audio yet? > > Another weird thing is that aplay -L lists the built in > intel audio S/PDIF: > > iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 > HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital > IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output > > But gnome-control-center no longer sees it as an output > option, so I can't get audio by going through my receiver > either. > > Any of this sound familiar? (I'll be taking the nvidia > card out soon, so I'm not really looking to try and fix > any of this, but I thought I'd mention the weirdnesses :-). > -- > users mailing list > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org Torvalds quotes that Nvidia is one of one of the worst companies that we deal with, even swore and flipped a middle finger toward the company; my suggestion (a political scientist, not an educated computer user) is go inside and flip out the Nvidia card for one that Linux does support. my 2 cents...