Not working:HDMI Audio and Enlightenment17

Question

Hi
Been searching hard to get my new install up and humming.  A couple of problems are hounding me.  I would be very grateful for help.
Audio via an HDMI cable out of a little Sony TV I am using as a monitor is not working.  Alsamixer shows two SPDIF outputs both unmuted showing 00.
lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec 147506 0
snd_hwdep 6332 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 77765 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc 7234 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 18718 1 snd_pcm
snd 58950 4 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec
Secondly:
I am using LKDM.  Launching Enlightenment 17 worked initially but after I went through the setup steps it sent me back to LKDM.  If I login as root and launch Enlightenment it flashes the 'almost there' screen from the end of the setup and then sends me back to LKDM.  If I login as a user it just blinks and stays on LKDM.  LKDE works flawlessly (except for the fact that my user desktop background will go back to default after I log out and back in, the background for root stays put and does not disappear after logging out and back in)
I absolutely adore the Arch Linux wiki and followed the install instructions for Arch Linux/LKDM/LKDE/Enlightenment closely, I just need to get these last issues solved so I can happily grind Stata all day.
Thanks for this great community
Last edited by TlfT (2013-08-27 23:05:45)

Answer 1

Enlightenment17 does not work again today, but it is not an issue as I think I prefer LXDE anyway.
As per audio, tried installing the official realtek driver for linux from their site, but it seemingly just made things worse.  Even after using make uninstall in the directory I installed from I cannot launch alsamixer: "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory". I tried installing OSS, following the wiki's instructions but got the following when I ran "soundon"
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/usr/lib/oss/build/osscore.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/lib/oss/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.10.9-1-ARCH'
make: *** [default] Error 2
Relinking the OSS kernel modules failed
uninstalled OSS and unistalled alsa-lib, alsa-tools and alsa utils. Reinstalled alsa lib, tools and utils and still no luck.
Tried just about every solution that is posted and made my problem worse.  Is there a way to 'refresh' the arch specific kernel without having to do a completely new install?  I tried pacman -S linux and it worked but did not bring back alsamixer functionality.
Also, anyone have any inkling as to why google-chrome or chromium will not lauch after being installed from the aur and package database?
Otherwise I am getting very good performance from my hardware in the programs I use.
Last edited by TlfT (2013-08-27 23:09:42)