[Linux-aus] Disabling HDMI sound

[Patrick Elliott-Brennan]

Thanks Josh.

I'll try that when I get home.

Regards, Patrick
On 16 Nov 2015 13:36, "Joshua Hesketh" <josh at nitrotech.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Not sure if it helps, but I find the pulseaudio volume control
> (pavucontrol) to have more options which allows me to set the ports for
> various devices.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> On 15/11/15 22:32, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My new machine has an ASUS motherboard:
> >
> > H170M-E D3
> >
> >
> > and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card.
> >
> >
> > I'm running Kubuntu 14.04
> >
> >
> > I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card.
> >
> > I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND
> > built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my
> > desktop speakers.
> >
> > The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable).
> > However nothing I change here has any effect.
> >
> > In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound
> > only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI.
> >
> > aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound.
> >
> > I have tried a number of things including
> > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added
> >
> > snd_hda_intel
> >
> > and adding a line in GRUB
> > radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well.
> >
> > I have found another possible solution here:
> > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/
> >
> > Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters
> >
> > Option: radeon.audio
> > Value:: 0,1
> > Default Value: 0
> > Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio
> >
> > My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to
> > add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what?
> >
> > Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm
> > stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor
> > use a microphone for video conferencing etc.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Patrick
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