From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Help required. Slax OS, no audio, multiple cards, hdmi Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:50:18 -0400 Message-ID: <75b66ecd0904131950o1501cab3u2edc325eee2e4274@mail.gmail.com> References: <49E355A0.1080106@thundermonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14006243A9 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:50:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so4836338gxk.8 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:50:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49E355A0.1080106@thundermonkey.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: James Gauld Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, James Gauld wrote: > However, running slax (from usb) I cannot get any sound from either > device, but I'm only interested in the HDMI card (card #1) which > delivers output to the integrated speakers (as far as I can tell from > windows). > > I've tried from console and various widgets in KDE with no success. Try installing the proprietary ATI video driver. Thanks to DRM the video driver has veto power over whether you can output audio via HDMI. Lee