HDMI Audio issue / Strange aplay -l output

I've yet to get HDMI audio output to work correctly. I've tried the advice to use aplay -l to find my card/device number, but my output seems different from every other one I've seen online. To my knowledge, I have the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed correctly.
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 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
In all the examples I've seen, after the line:
card X: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device Y:
there has been additional data to allow the user to determine which device. I've tried to play audio using aplay through each device and none produce sound output. I have a Windows drive on this computer on which sound works, so it isn't a hardware issue. Anyone know how I can fix this?
Update: After some more research, I've been able to force white noise through with:
sudo speaker-test -Dhw:1,7 -c2
I can also force aplay to play a .wav file. But after multiple go's trying to configure asound.conf, I can't seem to get anything else to play.
Last edited by Mason (2011-12-20 07:36:14)

i had the same problem the device you need to use is propably 9 install alsa-utils if you havent and run alsamixer then select the Nvidia device and check if all 4 of them are unmuted (the last three will probably be muted...)
You can unmute them with M after that test the devices again with aplay
Last edited by Loose_Control (2011-12-20 07:57:31)

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[ 11.201380] input: HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/sound/card0/input5
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xff744000 irq 52
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xff740000 irq 16
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.11.0-15-generic
lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek 57495 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 68274 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46433 1
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_hda_intel 52306 5
snd_hda_codec 137465 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30095 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_pcm 102033 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29433 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 69141 22 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
soundcore 12680 1 snd
lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Richland [1002:999c]
lshw -c video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Richland
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:53 memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:ff700000-ff73ffff
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI radeon 8650"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
Would be very grateful for any insight you guys can provide!
Many thanks
Last edited by Jugdish (2014-02-13 17:46:02)

emeres wrote:Have you tested the cable with some other units?
Yes I plugged in my Windows 7 laptop using the same HDMI cable and TV port, and audio worked fine (after switching from analogue to digital audio in the TV settings). So I don't think the problem is the cable.
Here is the output from
xrandr --props
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920
DFP1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 698mm x 392mm
EDID:
00ffffffffffff0034a935c101010101
00130103800000780adaffa3584aa229
17494b00000001010101010101010101
010101010101023a80d072382d40102c
4580ba882100001e023a801871382d40
582c4500ba882100001e000000fc0050
616e61736f6e69632d54560a000000fd
00173d0f440f000a2020202020200122
SignalFormat: TMDS
ConnectorType: HDMI
1920x1080 50.0*+ 60.0 59.9 60.1 50.0 24.0 60.0 24.0
1776x1000 50.0 59.9 50.0 24.0 60.0
1680x1050 60.0 50.0 59.9 24.0 24.0
1400x1050 60.0 50.0 59.9 24.0 24.0
1600x900 50.0 59.9 24.0
1280x1024 60.0 50.0 59.9 24.0 24.0
1440x900 50.0 59.9 24.0
1280x960 50.0 59.9 24.0
1280x768 50.0 59.9 24.0
1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9 24.0
1024x768 50.0 59.9 24.0
1152x648 50.0 59.9
800x600 50.0 59.9
720x576 59.9 24.0 50.1 50.0
720x480 50.0 24.0 60.1 60.0 60.1 59.9
640x480 50.0 24.0 60.0 59.9
DFP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
SignalFormat: TMDS
ConnectorType: DVI-D
CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
SignalFormat: VGA
ConnectorType: VGA
Last edited by Jugdish (2014-02-15 09:53:12)

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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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8 GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 5770
1TB HDD
OS 10.8.3
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I have a PVR, Blu Ray Player and Apple TV connected via HDMI to an Arcam AVR350. This in turn is connected via HDMI to a Pioneer plasma.
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Hunttheshunt

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Hello everyone,
this is my first post in Arch Linux forum. I am a Newbie but have always managed to work things around with ArchWiki documentation, but I am having an issue I could not solve for some time now.
My HDMI audio output was working fine, but stoped working about a month ago, maybe due to some update. I use the open source ATI driver (xf86-video-ati package), and enabled the kernel parameter radeon.audio=1, like it is documented.
My graphics card is a Radeon HD 3650. I checked for the compatibility of the driver (http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#De … ting_names) and it seems to be ok.
Do you have any suggestion to help me?
Thank you in advance

Andreaskem wrote:
Output of "aplay -l"?
Do you use pulseaudio? If so, what is the output of "pactl list"?
Thank you for your reply
Here is the output of aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC268 Digital [ALC268 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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Subdevices: 1/1
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Last edited by rud25 (2013-10-13 19:15:09)

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