Acer 5920G: HDMI Sound

Acer 5920G: HDMI Sound

[tifereth]

hi,

i'm the owner of an "Acer 5920g" Laptop with the following specs:
- Nvidia 8600m GT
- HDMI Port
- afaik. Realtek Sound Chip

i've tried a lot to get the hdmi sound working, but still without 
success. As i can only find "requests for help" for this sound chip, 
perhaps you could help the lost acer 5920 owners and me.

things i've tried yet:
- updated kernel to vanilla 2.6.29.1 ( alsa 1.8a )
- updated alsa to 1.9 ( stable )
- updated alsa to "1.0.19.46.g516fa.506.gb750c" ( snapshot from 
14.04.2009 )
- added the followng line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base: "options 
snd-hda-intel model=auto"

result of aplay -L && aplay -l ist still the same:

aplay -l
**** Liste von PLAYBACK Geräten ****
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
 Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
 Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
 Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
 Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0

aplay -L
default:CARD=Intel
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
   7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Digital
   IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
   Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

alsa_info.sh output: 
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=aa10ba4429b9cc24826d8ce1a79a0e898fd69dea

Hopefully you have anymore ideas i could try, if you need anymore 
hardware information please contact me

thanks in advance,
tifereth

Re: Acer 5920G: HDMI Sound

[tifereth]

I finally managed to get it running:

my problem was that i didn't upgrade alsa-utils to 1.9 which made it 
finally working.

Here are some steps that could help:
- update alsa-base to 1.9
- update alsa-utils to 1.9
- stop your XServer, run "alsaconf", reboot

some system info:

aplay -l
**** Liste von PLAYBACK Geräten ****
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 0/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0

cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 
1.0.19.46.g516fa.506.gb750c.
Compiled on Apr 13 2009 for kernel 2.6.29.1 (SMP).

greetings

tifereth wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm the owner of an "Acer 5920g" Laptop with the following specs:
> - Nvidia 8600m GT
> - HDMI Port
> - afaik. Realtek Sound Chip
>
> i've tried a lot to get the hdmi sound working, but still without 
> success. As i can only find "requests for help" for this sound chip, 
> perhaps you could help the lost acer 5920 owners and me.
>
> things i've tried yet:
> - updated kernel to vanilla 2.6.29.1 ( alsa 1.8a )
> - updated alsa to 1.9 ( stable )
> - updated alsa to "1.0.19.46.g516fa.506.gb750c" ( snapshot from 
> 14.04.2009 )
> - added the followng line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base: "options 
> snd-hda-intel model=auto"
>
> result of aplay -L && aplay -l ist still the same:
>
> aplay -l
> **** Liste von PLAYBACK Geräten ****
> Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
> Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
> Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
> Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
> Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
> Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
>
> aplay -L
> default:CARD=Intel
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>   7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
> iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>   HDA Intel, ALC1200 Digital
>   IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> null
>   Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
>
> alsa_info.sh output: 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=aa10ba4429b9cc24826d8ce1a79a0e898fd69dea 
>
>
> Hopefully you have anymore ideas i could try, if you need anymore 
> hardware information please contact me
>
> thanks in advance,
> tifereth
>