Solved: No sound over HDMI - HP Pavilion dv3510nr Entertainment Notebook PC

I bought an HP Pavilion dv3510nr in April 2009 (4G Ram, Vista Home Premium 64Bit). As I did not have access to any HDMI devices I didn’t have the opportunity to use the HDMI output. Recently I obtained an HDMI TV and when I connected the dv3510nr the video worked fine, but there was no sound. Set the default playback device to Digital Output Device (S/PDIF/HDMI); this made no difference. Over many days I tried various suggestions regarding possible solutions, all without success.
Shortly after buying the laptop, I visited NVIDIA’s web sit and updated the original video drivers to the latest version (version 186.03). According to the NVIDIA, the 186.X drivers offer a very significant performance increase for many applications, and also include PhysX system software for hardware acceleration.
Checked HP’s support page for my model here, and found that the latest drivers provided by HP were version 7.15.11.7903, (Called NVIDIA NB9M-GS Graphics Drivers).
Decided to replace my current drivers with these older ones. This was harder than I expected. Downloading and running the exe file (sp41695.exe) did not replace the existing 186.03 drivers. Using the control panel to uninstall both the drivers and the PhysX software seemed to work, but on rebooting, the drivers were automatically re-installed. I also used Device Manager to uninstall them. Eventually I succeeded and again tried to install the older drivers provided by HP; this time I received an error message saying that I was “Trying to use a 32-bit uninstaller on a 64-bit system”. The program sp41695.exe initially creates a folder C:\SWSetup\SP41695 that contains several files including a setup.exe file and two other folders: WinVista32 and WinVista64. Each of these also contains setup.exe files. I ran the setup.exe file in the WinVista64 folder. This successfully installed both the video and sound drivers for my graphics card. HDMI sound has worked fine since then. Needless to say, from now on I will only install drivers etc. from HP website!
Hope this saves someone else some time.

Here is a thread and it seems like one person got it to work by uninstalling and reinstalling but I didn't read it that carefully. There does seem to be a problem with getting a real windows 7 driver:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-PC-Sound-and-Audio/Conexant-High-Definition-Audio-Driver-for-W...
Here is another thread (not HP) that said he forced the driver and got it to work:
http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/10471-conexant-high-definition-audio-windows-7-rc-1-no-sound....
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card 0
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//After looking around, HDMI only sends the signals to turn down the HDMI connected device. I guess it's as good as it gets...//
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Mar 13 10:22 by-path
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crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Mar 13 10:22 pcmC0D0c
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crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Mar 13 10:22 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Mar 13 19:38 pcmC1D3p
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Last edited by seca (2011-03-22 03:43:43)

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null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
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7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
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HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
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Whenever I run "speaker-test -D iec958:SB -c 6" or "speaker-test -D hdmi:Generic -c 6" I get:
speaker-test 1.0.25
Playback device is iec958:SB
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
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Channels count (6) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
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To anyone who's bothered to read all this ( I sorry it's so long I'm just trying to be thorough) Thank you!
If anyone has any clue what I can try to fix this I would be forever grateful.
Edit: Well it looks like all that messing around I did last night trying to fix things only made it worse. Now the sound in XBMC doesn't work either.
Last edited by Zarcjap (2012-03-21 12:33:48)

Hi!
I spent the day asking friend google, browsing the arch wiki, ubuntu wiki and xbmc wiki.
Lastly, I made it work. I have to admit that I don't know why and don't actually understand a thing of what I did, it was trial and error. However, here is what I did:
installed alsa-oss (probably irrelevant)
set the audio output settings in xbmc to "Audio output"="Optical/Coax", "Audio output device"="Defaults" and "Passthrough output device"="hdmi".
used the following as my .asoundrc
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
rate 44100
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
That's it. In case you are a sound guru willing to share your wisdom or else trying to make it work like I did, you might want some more info. Here you go.
Output of "cat /proc/asound/modules":
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
Output of "aplay -L":
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=SB
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
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card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Hope it helps anyone out there. In case I stumble upon further problems regarding this hack, I'll post them here.
Regards
lightandshadow

[solved] no sound in HDMI

Hi,
I have Arch linux installed in Intel NUC DC3217IYE which has only hdmi output, no jack. I get no sound from HDMI and I can not triage why. The aplay output is:
[xan@cinezzin ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[xan@cinezzin ~]$
Thanks in advance,
Last edited by xanb (2015-02-12 14:36:58)

xanb wrote:
Partial progress: following this guide, I got this:
[xan@cinezzin ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[xan@cinezzin ~]$
Then, I created the .asoundrc file:
xan@cinezzin ~]$ cat .asoundrc
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 7
defaults.ctl.card 0
[xan@cinezzin ~]$
and with
speaker-test -D plughw:0,3 # for slot 1
I get sound [that is the HDMI output works]. With
speaker-test -D plughw:0,7
I get no sound.
But I cannot play any sound at all. If I reproduce a wav file, then I get no sound.
Any thought.
Thanks,
I had similar issues the first time I tried to get HDMI sound to work. The issue is that these cards come with multiple devices so alsa/pulseaudio seem to have issues determining which one is actually used, and more often than not the incorrect one ends up being the default.
From your post it is quite obvious that you are attempting to default the one device which does not work, device 7. The device you report getting sound from is the third one so naturally that's the one you want to attempt defaulting to.
In pulseaudio you can edit /etc/default.pa and add the following entry at an appropriate place:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3
Restarting pulseaudio and choosing your device from something like pavucontrol should then do the trick. You could of course find some similar method of making the change permanent using just alsa, but since I never bothered using alsa directly I will leave that part to you.

NVIDIA display over HDMI and ATI sound over HDMI using one mainboard

Hello everyone,
I was curious to know if it is possible to use a setup where I use an NVIDIA card to send display over HDMI to my receiver and at the same time I use an internal ATI chip to send audio over HDMI to the same receiver.
In my setup it is a GA-MA78GM-S2H mainboard with a built in ATI HD3200 IGP and an NVIDIA 9500GT GPU and I'll be using XBMC as media centre.
The problem is there is no hardware acceleration support for the display of full-hd (1080p 24) for the ATI chip, whereas NVIDIA using VDPAU is.
On the other hand the 9500GT doen not support audio over HDMI (unlike the newer models like GT210 or GT220), I can connect SPDIF to the NVIDIA card to allow some sort of audio over HDMI, but in that case I'll still have the bandwidth limitation associated with SPDIF.
I tried to set up a box with both NVIDIA and catalyst drivers to use the above functions, but when I try to install catalyst drivers I get a hardware conflict notice that NVIDIA and Catalyst drivers cannot be installed at the same time on the same system.
AFAIK I need the catalyst drivers (or hd-radeon) in order for also to recognize the device (?)
Anyone any information if installing both drivers is required and possible? Or are there any other methods to achieve such set up?
TIA,
daf art

Hello everyone,
I was curious to know if it is possible to use a setup where I use an NVIDIA card to send display over HDMI to my receiver and at the same time I use an internal ATI chip to send audio over HDMI to the same receiver.
In my setup it is a GA-MA78GM-S2H mainboard with a built in ATI HD3200 IGP and an NVIDIA 9500GT GPU and I'll be using XBMC as media centre.
The problem is there is no hardware acceleration support for the display of full-hd (1080p 24) for the ATI chip, whereas NVIDIA using VDPAU is.
On the other hand the 9500GT doen not support audio over HDMI (unlike the newer models like GT210 or GT220), I can connect SPDIF to the NVIDIA card to allow some sort of audio over HDMI, but in that case I'll still have the bandwidth limitation associated with SPDIF.
I tried to set up a box with both NVIDIA and catalyst drivers to use the above functions, but when I try to install catalyst drivers I get a hardware conflict notice that NVIDIA and Catalyst drivers cannot be installed at the same time on the same system.
AFAIK I need the catalyst drivers (or hd-radeon) in order for also to recognize the device (?)
Anyone any information if installing both drivers is required and possible? Or are there any other methods to achieve such set up?
TIA,
daf art

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