No sound through HDMI cable

[sdim]

Hi, everyone.
Recently installed the latest LMDE and I'm very pleased with everything, except a strange issue which I can't explain.
The monitor is connected with the pc through an HDMI cable which is fine, as far as imaging is concerned.
The thing is that I have no sound through the HDMI cable, although I select High Definition Audio from the Sound preferences.
The sound works fine through the on-board sound card, though.
Any solutions?
Many thanks in advance.

P.S. Sorry, I just saw the Sound sub-forum. I should have posted it there.

[Gerd50]

Hi sdim,

Without information about your sound card solutions impossible. What do you get with

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cat /proc/asound/cards

?

[sdim]

Thanks, Gerd50. Here it is:

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0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfcff4000 irq 16
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe97c000 irq 19

[akaawol]

I to have this problem.
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0x90900000 irq 46

can I get advised to please?

[Gerd50]

@sdim, in gnome-alsamixer do you have an option IEC958 and if is it enabled?
What do you get with

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lspci -v | grep VGA

and

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aplay -l

@akaawol, i don't know whether it could be helpful for you, if we search for a (i think) ATI solution here. Maybe it's better
to open an own thread for your card and controller.

[sdim]

Yes, IEC958 is the Internal Audio Analog Stereo which plays OK.
I get

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sd@sd ~ $ lspci -v | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

and

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aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 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

[Gerd50]

I have found a howto HDMI ATI for Crunchbang. As Cb is Debian based i think you could give it a try

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... orking-in/

[sdim]

Many thanks, Gerd50.
I will look into it.

[carol14]

HDMI is typically used to connect a high-definition device--such as an HD DVR--to an HDTV. To make the connection, you simply put one end of the cable into the HDTV's HDMI input slot and the other end into the device's HDMI output slot. Thanks.